The Watson Gordon Lecture 2016
Caravaggio and Cupid: Homage and Rivalry in Rome and Florence
- A new look at work by Caravaggio, one of the most famous and fascinating artists of all time
Caravaggio’s astonishingly naturalistic and provocative Cupid Victorious hung in the palace of a famous family at the heart of seventeenth-century Rome. Helen Langdon explores how the artist, famed for his originality, created a balance between a suggestion of his own world – a world of lively and rowdy street life – and a complex and ambiguous response to both ancient and Renaissance art and literature. Langdon also looks at the challenge the painting threw out to contemporary painters, whose world was characterised by extreme and bitter rivalries; often they reject his irony, sometimes embellish the painting’s sexuality, and at other times convey an opposing sense of the harmony of the arts.
- Publisher
- National Galleries of Scotland
- ISBN
- 9781911054146
- Published
- 10th Nov 2017
- Binding
- Hardback
- Territory
- World
- Size
- 215 mm x 165 mm
- Pages
- 48 Pages
- Illustrations
- 20 color
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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