Author: Jackson, David
Title: Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Blue casebound book with the title in silver down the spine. There is a dust jacket with the title in white down a mostly brown spine. Pages: (5), 6-128. Profusely illustrated with color images. "Christen Købke (1819-1848) was arguably the greatest painter of Denmark's Golden Age, the period of the nation's supreme artistic achievement. He had the remarkable ability to invest the simplest corner of town or countryside with charm and delicacy, without resorting to the artificial rhetoric of academic traditions. He endowed ordinary people and places, and simple motifs, with a universal significance; a world in microcosm. This beautiful book, written by leading scholars of Scandinavian art, offers an overview of Købke's achievement within its cultural context, and also highlights the most innovative aspects of his work, including outdoor sketching, his fascination with painterly immediacy in the treatment of light and atmosphere, his exquisite originality, and his experimental outlook." Contents are as follows: Age of Købke -- Charlottenborg -- The Citadel -- Frederiksborg and National Romanticism -- Portraiture -- Blegdammen -- Italy and the return to Denmark -- Afterward -- In Italy Kasper Monrad -- People in Købke's world. VG/VG: Exlibrary book in great condition. Stamp on half-title page. Sticker and due date card on back free end page. Stamp on top text block.

Keywords: European Artists ; Kobke, Christen ; ;


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