The Watson Gordon Lecture 2016: Caravaggio and Cupid: Homage and Rivalry in Rome and Florence - Couverture rigide

Langdon, Helen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1911054147 ISBN 13 : 9781911054146

Editeur : National Galleries of Scotland, 2018

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

• A new look at work by Caravaggio, one of the most famous and fascinating artists of all time

Caravaggio's astonishingly naturalistic and provocative Cupid Victorious hung in the palace of a famous family at the heart of seventeenth-century Rome. Helen Langdon explores how the artist, famed for his originality, created a balance between a suggestion of his own world - a world of lively and rowdy street life - and a complex and ambiguous response to both ancient and Renaissance art and literature. Langdon also looks at the challenge the painting threw out to contemporary painters, whose world was characterised by extreme and bitter rivalries; often they reject his irony, sometimes embellish the painting's sexuality, and at other times convey an opposing sense of the harmony of the arts.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Dr Helen Langdon is a writer, scholar and curator, and the former Assistant Director of the British School at Rome.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: National Galleries of Scotland
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1911054147
• ISBN 13: 9781911054146
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 48