My Life - Couverture souple

Chagall, Marc

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0720611865 ISBN 13 : 9780720611861

Editeur : Peter Owen, 2010

Synopsis

'You should know that men like Benvenuto, unique in their profession, need not be subject to the law.'
Thus spoke Pope Paul III on learning that Cellini had murdered a fellow artist, so great was Cellini's reputation in Renaissance Italy. A renowned sculptor and goldsmith, whose works include the famous salt-cellar made for the King of France, and the statue of Perseus with the head of the Medusa, Cellini's life was as vivid and enthralling as his creations. A man of action as well as an artist, he took part in the Sack of Rome in 1527; he was temperamental, passionate, and conceited, capable of committing criminal acts ranging from brawling and sodomy to theft and murder. He numbered among his patrons popes and kings and members of the Medici family, and his autobiography is a fascinating account of sixteenth-century Italy and France written with all the verve of a novel.
This new translation, which captures the freshness and vivacity of the original, is based on the latest critical edition. It examines in detail the central event in Cellini's narrative, the casting of the statue of Perseus.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Often called 'the Father of Surrealism', Marc Chagall was born in Witebsk in 1887. He studied art in St Petersburg and went to Paris in 1910. He spent the years from 1914 to 1922 in Russia, becoming Commissar of Arts in Witebsk after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. In 1923 he resettled in Paris but following the fall of France he moved to New York. Chagall returned to France in 1948 and remained there until his death in 1985.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Owen
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0720611865
• ISBN 13: 9780720611861
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
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• Personne responsable: non disponible