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Raphael and the Antique

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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The Renaissance artist Raphael is known for his extraordinary frescoes, his sublime Madonnas, devotional altarpieces, architectural designs, and his inventive prints and tapestries. It was his use of ancient Roman models – classical sculptures, reliefs and paintings – that formed his much admired classical style, and influenced the styles of many later artists.In Raphael and the Antique Claudia La Malfa gives a full account of Raphael’s prodigious career, from central Italy when he was 17 years old, to Perugia, Siena and Florence, where he first met with Leonardo and Michelangelo, to Rome where he became one of the most feted artists of the Renaissance. This book focuses and highlights Raphael’s re-invention of classical models, his draughtsmanship and his concept of art, which he pursued and was still striving to perfect at the time of his death aged only 37, in 1520.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-02-03
Mått138 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt706 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRenaissance Lives
Antal sidor304
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781789141504

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Claudia La Malfa’s absorbing Raphael and the Antique, which is part of Reaktion Books series called Renaissance Lives . . . these books are not intended to be full-blooded cradle to grave last words on their subjects, but rather seek to shed light on particular aspects of their work alongside a more general account of their careers. In the case of Raphael, his engagement with the arts of classical antiquity is an unusually rewarding focus, above all because it allows the author not only to demonstrate the seriousness of his study of both the sculpture and the architecture of the ancients, but also to explore the consequences of this profound immersion on his own production . . . the book has a wonderful – and fascinating – surprise half a dozen pages or so from its end.