IDEAL LANDSCAPE: Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin, and Claude Lorrain were the masters of ideal, or heroic, landscape painting in the seventeenth century. In this original and highly sophisticated book, Margaretha Lagerlof interprets these paintings in a new way, examining them from four perspectives relevant to their contemporaries - those of drama, rhetoric, utopianism, and metaphysics." Quarto: 247 p. with 105 plates (many color). Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Fine / Fine. Item #75193
ISBN: 0300047630
Price: $50.00
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