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Lemoine, Annick et al. - Valentin de Boulogne : Beyond Caravaggio

New York NY, Metropolian Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2016. Hardcover. Color illustrated dustjacket in mylar, black boards with silver lettering on spine. xi, 1-276 pp. featuring 145 illustrations. Following Caravaggio's death in 1610, the French artist Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) emerged as one of the great champions of naturalist painting. The eminent art historian Roberto Longhi honored him as "the most energetic and passionate of Caravaggio's naturalist followers .. With discussions of nearly fifty works, representing practically all of his painted oeuvre, Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio explores both the artist's superlative depictions of daily life and the tumultuous context in which they were produced .. Rich with incident and insight, and beautifully illustrated with Valentin's complex, suggestive paintings, Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio reveals a seminal artist, a practitioner of realism in the seventeenth century who prefigured the naturalistic modernism of Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet two centuries later. VG exlib with mylar over dj, stamps on top text block and inside covers, stickers on rear endpage .
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 25.75 | £UK 22.25 | JP¥ 4408] Book number 202616

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