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El Greco: the Burial of the Count of Orgaz

Door Francisco Calvo Serraller

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#322705-KB17
Titel
El Greco: the Burial of the Count of Orgaz
Auteur
Serraller, Francisco Calvo
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Thames and Hudson
Jaar van uitgave
1994
ISBN10
0500237026
ISBN13
9780500237021
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Origina;l gilt red cloth, dust jacket, a lot of (full page) colour illustrations, 4to.
Samenvatting
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz is a key work in the Mannerist tradition and a supreme achievement of the human spirit. Like The Divine Comedy and the Eroica Symphony, it epitomizes an age, and any study of it has to probe deeply not only into the history of art but also into religion, society and psychology.
It is appropriate therefore that a whole book should be devoted to this single painting - a painting whose subject is both particularized and universal.
The painting is reproduced in all its glory in this magnificent book, bringing the reader face to face with its splendor, its rich colors and its incredible expressiveness. Shown in a series of specially commissioned photographs, it is illustrated first as a whole, and then in a series of enlarged details that magnify every minute
... (Lees verder)embellishment and brushstroke.
Pagina's
143
Conditie
Goed — Edges browned; light tobacco smell.
Prijs
€ 15,00

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