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Natural Light - The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science (Hardcover)
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Natural Light - The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R595
Discovery Miles 5 950
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A brand-new perspective on early modern art and its relationship
with nature as reflected in this moving account of overlooked
artistic genius Adam Elsheimer, by an outstanding writer and
critic. Seventeenth-century Europe swirled with conjectures and
debates over what was real and what constituted 'nature', currents
that would soon gather force to form modern science. Natural Light
deliberates on the era’s uncertainties, as distilled in the work
of painter Adam Elsheimer – a short-lived, tragic German artist
who has always been something of a cult secret. Elsheimer’s
diminutive, intense and mysterious narrative compositions related
figures to landscape in new ways, projecting unfamiliar visions of
space at a time when Caravaggio was polarizing audiences with his
radical altarpieces and circles of ‘natural philosophers’ –
early modern scientists – were starting to turn to the new
‘world system’ of Galileo. Julian Bell transports us to the
spirited Rome of the 1600s, where Elsheimer and other young
Northern immigrants – notably his friend Peter Paul Rubens –
swapped pictorial and poetic reference points. Focusing on some of
Elsheimer's most haunting compositions, Bell drives at the
anxieties that underlie them – a puzzling over existential
questions that still have relevance today. Traditional themes for
imagery are expressed with fresh urgency, most of all in
Elsheimer's final painting, a vision of the night sky of
unprecedented poetic power that was completed at a time of ferment
in astronomy. Circulated through prints, Elsheimer’s pictorial
inventions affected imaginations as disparate as Rembrandt, Lorrain
and Poussin. They even reached artists in Mughal India, whose
equally impassioned miniatures expand our sense of what 'nature'
might be. As we home in on artworks of microscopic finesse, the
whole of the 17th-century globe and its perplexities starts to open
out around us.
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