Seeing is Believing

Bruegel, Matisse, Leonardo, Manet, Constable, Turner
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9837-3
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

Reihe: Lutterworth Press

Encourages you to explore art through your own eyes, senses and experiences.

In Seeing is Believing, Robert Cumming extends his exploration of the pleasures of aesthetic experience. From the freezing winter of Brueghel's Hunters in the Snow to Constable's and Turner's watercolours of a rapidly changing middle England, Robert investigates the varying qualities of landscape painting, pairing this with the detailed portraiture of Manet's A bar at the Folies Bergère, the inscrutability of the Mona Lisa, and Matisse's lyrical movement in La Danse. You will travel as Robert's companion through the grand museums of Paris, Vienna and London, and visit undiscovered gems such as the Lady Lever Art Gallery. Your experience of Slow Looking will deepen as Robert encourages you to explore art through your own eyes, senses and experiences.

With new illustrations by the artist Gino Ballantyne, Seeing is Believing builds on the explorations of Velazquez, Canaletto, Fra Angelico, and Pollock in Book One - Learning to Look. The Series will conclude with Book Three - Continuing to Look which will investigate artists such as Rembrandt, Picasso, Poussin, Rubens, Degas, Sir Luke Fildes and Bridget Riley.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cumming, Robert

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ballantyne, Gino

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttechniken & Prinzipien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Family Life
Settling Down

Seeing is Believing

The Paintings

Introduction
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)

Henri Matisse, La Danse (Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum)

Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa (Paris, Musée du Louvre)
Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies Bergère (London, Courtauld Gallery)
John Constable, London, from Hampstead Heath in a Storm; with a Double Rainbow (London, British Museum)
J.M.W. Turner, Dudley, Worcestershire (Liverpool, Leverhulme Collection)

Thanks and Acknowledgements

Über Autor(innen)

Ballantyne, Gino
GINO BALLANTYNE a Scottish artist born in Malta, he studied at Glasgow School of Art. His work focuses on the human condition to compel understanding of both humanity and civilisation, exploring narratives of the ordinary and the terrible. Gino has exhibited nationally and internationally, Gino and Robert have worked closely together for many years.