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The Surveyor (Paperback)
Fabian Reimann, Anthony Blunt, Stephanie Tasch; Edited by Jan Wenzel
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Nicolas Poussin
Anthony Blunt
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A landmark account of the work, thought, and life of the
seventeenth-century French painter In this book, Anthony Blunt
presents a rich account of the paintings, life, and development of
the great seventeenth-century French classicist Nicolas Poussin
(1594–1665), addressing the artist’s entire oeuvre alongside
his theory of art. Blunt shows why Poussin holds a central place in
the great French humanist line that produced Racine, Molière,
Voltaire, the Parnassians, and Mallarmé. At the same time, he
examines how Poussin looks back to Raphael and ancient Rome, while
pointing forward to Ingres, Cézanne, the Cubists, and Picasso.
Francesco Borromini is one of the great geniuses of Baroque
architecture, perhaps the greatest in inventiveness and in use of
spatial effects. Here is the first book in English to survey the
whole work of the master. The author, former Director of the
Courtauld Institute of Art, is known internationally for his many
works on French and Italian architecture and painting. In this
lucid and fully illustrated account, Anthony Blunt charts
Borromini's career and analyzes and assesses his art. Mr. Blunt
tells of Borromini's training, relating his style to that of
Bernini, under whom he worked, and to the architecture from which
he learned, for example Michelangelo's. Borromini's patrons allowed
him freedom to evolve his own ideas, and his originality and
imagination in inventing new architectural forms become apparent as
the author studies individual commissions. His imagination was
apparently limitless, but his inventions evolved in terms of
rigidly controlled geometry. It is this combination of
revolutionary inventiveness and intellectual control that gives
Borromini's work particular appeal in the twentieth century.
This book seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of
Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of
art themselves, but on the various artistic theories which
influenced them or were expressed by them. Taking Alberti's
treatises as his starting-point, Anthony Blunt traces the
development of artistic theory from Humanism to Mannerism. He
discusses the writings of Leonardo, Savonarola, Michelangelo, and
Vasari, examines the effect of the Council of Trent on religious
art, and chronicles the successful struggle of the painters and
sculptors themselves to elevate their status from craftsmen to
creative artists.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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