Helen Langdon - Böcker

Painter, poet and actor Salvator Rosa was one of the most engaging and charismatic personalities of seventeenth-century Italy. Although a gifted landscape painter, he longed to be seen as the pre-eminent philosopher-painter of his age. This new ac...

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In this rich exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors from the fields of history, art history, literary history and theory, science history, and anthropology investigate the experiences of travelers and their ways of understanding an...

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The Cardsharps, one of the paintings that launched Caravaggio's spectacular career in Rome, captured the turbulent social reality of the city in the 1590s. This early masterpiece not only documented one of the everyday activities of Rome's citizen...

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A powerful and illuminating biographythe first in English in two generationsof one of the most popular painters of all time: the seventeenth-century Italian master, Caravaggio.. Of all the great Italian painters, the seventeenth-century master Car...

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"An informed and detailed assessment by someone with a deep understanding of art" - Martin Gayford, The Sunday Telegraph "It has sufficient breadth of content and clarity of purpose to have wide appeal among the uninitiated, and yet...

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Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (c. 1565-1609) speaks most intensely to the modern world. His early works suggest a fascination with his own youth and sexuality and the trancience of love and beauty his later religious art speaks of violence, ...

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In the course of a short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisl da Caravaggio (1571-1610) revolutionised painting, producing a style of shockingly immediate realism that swept through Europe. The impact of his art and personality continue to resona...

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"An informed and detailed assessment by someone with a deep understanding of art" - Martin Gayford, The Sunday Telegraph "It has sufficient breadth of content and clarity of purpose to have wide appeal among the uninitiated, and yet...

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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 ...

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