Umfang:
197 Seiten :
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86 Illustrationen.
ISBN:
978-1-78914-319-5
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1-78914-319-5
Inhalt:
The achievements of Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo were, even during a period of unprecedented artistry, out of the ordinary. Born in Brescia around 1480, he radically reimagined Christian subjects. His surviving oeuvre of roughly fifty paintings--from the intensely poetic Tobias and the Angel to sober self-portraits--represents some of the most profound work of the period. In Painting with Demons, a beautifully illustrated book and the first in English devoted to the painter, Michael Fried brings his celebrated skills of looking and thinking to bear on Savoldo's art, providing a stunning contribution to our understanding both of the early modern European imagination and of the achievement of this underappreciated artist.
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Kunstgeschichte
Schlagwort(e):
1480-1548 Savoldo, Gian Girolamo
Mehr zum Autor:
Savoldo, Gian Girolamo, 1480-1548
Mehr zum Autor:
Fried, Michael, 1939-,