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The Watson Gordon Lecture 2016

The Watson Gordon Lecture 2016

Caravaggio and Cupid: Homage and Rivalry in Rome and Florence

By (author) Helen Langdon

$9.95

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

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 characterized 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.

About the Author

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

Specifications
Publisher
National Galleries of Scotland
ISBN
9781911054146
Published
10th Nov 2017
Binding
Hardback
Territory
USA & Canada
Size
6.5 in x 8.46 in
Pages
48 Pages
Illustrations
20 color
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