Raphael

Pierluigi De Vecchi

In his "Lives of the Artists", Vasari wrote: "While we may term other works paintings, those of Raphael are living things, the flesh palpitates, the breath comes and goes, every organ lives, life pulsates everywhere." In this extensively illustrated book featuring some 300 illustrations, the author takes a critical look at the life and work of Rafaello Sanzio, or as he signed certain paintings, Raphael Urbinas, in homage to his native city of Urbino. Described as "an artist touched by grace," he is considered, along with Michelangelo and Leonardo, to be one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance. Raphael (1483-1520), whose birth and death were on a Good Friday, belonged to a family of merchants; aside from his training in the studio of Perugino, little is known about his earliest years. He arrived in Florence in 1504, where he studied the masters and produced magnificent paintings of the Madonna, as well as remarkable portraits. In 1508 he went to Rome, where he died a dozen years later at the height of his powers, after creating monumental works at the Vatican.De Vecchi re-examines the scholarship surrounding each of the major periods of Raphael's short career, dispelling the myths about him that have accumulated over the centuries. He reminds us that the most "profound" element of Raphael's art was his striving to express the dialectic between earthly and heavenly love, an important concern of his contemporaries. The coverage of the text extends beyond the paintings to Raphael's significant work as an architect and designer of interiors.

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[目次]

  • Contents Raphael Urbinas Early Works The Florentine Period Practice and Invention The Interiors and the Tapestries The Portraits The Altarpieces The Master and His Studio Antiquity and Modernity Appendices Chronology Bibliography Index

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書名 Raphael
著作者等 De Vecchi, Pierluigi
Raphael
Vecchi Pier Luigi De
書名別名 Raffaello
出版元 Abbeville Press
刊行年月 2002
ページ数 380 p.
大きさ 34 cm
ISBN 0789207702
NCID BA63324259
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言語 英語
原文言語 フランス語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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