
The Watson Gordon Lecture 2016
Caravaggio and Cupid: Homage and Rivalry in Rome and Florence
Helen Langdon(Author)
National Galleries of Scotland (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 10. November 2017
Book
Hardback
48 pages
978-1-911054-14-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
20 colour
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-911054-14-6 (9781911054146)
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Person
Dr Helen Langdon is a writer, scholar and curator, and the former Assistant Director of the British School at Rome.