A painter of outstanding originality who was considered one of the founders of the French Romantic School, Th???odore G???ricault left Paris in late 1816, at the age of twenty-five, and spent the next year in Italy, making an extraordinary series of works in a variety of media. This beautiful book studies the work produced by G???ricault during this year and assesses the importance of the trip for the rest of his career. Wheelock Whitney provides the most detailed account to date of the biographical circumstances of the ...
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A painter of outstanding originality who was considered one of the founders of the French Romantic School, Th???odore G???ricault left Paris in late 1816, at the age of twenty-five, and spent the next year in Italy, making an extraordinary series of works in a variety of media. This beautiful book studies the work produced by G???ricault during this year and assesses the importance of the trip for the rest of his career. Wheelock Whitney provides the most detailed account to date of the biographical circumstances of the Italian stay, paying particular attention to the artistic milieu in which G???ricault found himself in Rome. He assesses G???ricault's contact with numerous contemporary artists and in particular the nature of their influence on him--presenting him as a product of his own time and place rather than as a solitary genius. The book discusses and reproduces almost every painting and drawing done by G???ricault during this period: his copies after the antique and earlier masters; his works on themes of contemporary Italian genre; the works on mythological and erotic themes; and his paramount Italian project--the series of works on the annual race of riderless horses down the Roman Corso. The book not only sheds light on a hitherto unexamined period of G???ricault's life but also illuminates the efforts of a key figure in a transitional period of French art to come to grips with the classical and neoclassical past while embracing the new century's passions for the exotic and the real.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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First edition. x+222 pages with index. Illustrated in color and black and white. Cloth. Very good in dustjacket. Discusses and reproduces almost every painting and drawing done by Gericault during his year in Italy in 1817. The text studies the work produced during this time and assesses the importance of the trip for the rest of Gericault's career.
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Fine in fine jacket. Color and black & white reproductions throughout. ix, 222 pages. 4to, green cloth with gilt lettering at spine, pictorial d.w. New Haven: Yale University Press, (1997). First edition. Wheelock's inked signature and gift inscription on title page. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
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VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. ) Green cloth boards with gilt lettering; color illustration dj, mylar cover; ix, 222 pp; illustrated in bw and color. "A painter of outstanding originality who was considered one of the founders of the French Romantic School, Theodore Gericault left Paris in late 1816, at the age of twenty-five, and spent the next year in Italy, making an extraordinary series of works in a variety of media. This beautiful book studies the work produced by Gericault during this year and assesses the importance of the trip for the rest of his career. The book discusses and reproduces almost every painting and drawing done by Gericault during this period: his copies after the antique and earlier masters; his works on themes of contemporary Italian genre (an interest that made him almost unique among French artists of the period); the works on mythological and erotic themes; and his paramount Italian project-the series of works on the annual race of riderless horses down the Roman Corso, which have been organized here for the first time to illustrate fully the project's gradual development from the depiction of a scene Gericault actually observed into a timeless if essentially classical image of heroic struggle. The book sheds light not only on a hitherto unexamined period of Gericault's life but also on the efforts of a key figure in a transitional period of French art to come to grips with the classical and neoclassical past while embracing the new century's passions for the exotic and the real."-DJ.
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