"The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or "big George" died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly having painted no more than thirty works. But many of these are among the most mysterious and alluring in the history of art. Paintings such as the Three Philosophers...

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1. Verfasser:	Nichols, Tom 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Reaktion Books 2020
Schriftenreihe:	Renaissance lives
Schlagworte:	Giorgione > 1478-1510 Giorgione / 1477 or 1478-1510 / Criticism and interpretation Giorgione / 1477 or 1478-1510 Art criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc
Zusammenfassung:	"The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or "big George" died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly having painted no more than thirty works. But many of these are among the most mysterious and alluring in the history of art. Paintings such as the Three Philosophers and The Tempest remain compellingly elusive, seeming to deny the viewer the possibility of interpreting their meaning. Tom Nichols argues that this visual ambiguity was quite deliberate, and that it was essential to Giorgione's approach in all his paintings. Nichols shows that Giorgione abandoned the more intellectual and rationalizing tendencies of Renaissance art, acknowledging the limits to human awareness or understanding. He was also to develop a newly sensual kind of art based on the intimate experiences of the body"--Inside back cover
Beschreibung:	253 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781789142976