Painters and Sitters in Early-Seventeenth Century Rome: Portraits of the Soul

by Esther Theiler

Significant innovations in portraiture occurred during the transitional period from the end of the sixteenth-century to the early seventeenth-century in Rome. Portraits by Annibale Carracci, Valentin de Boulogne, Anthony van Dyck, Simon Vouet and Gianlorenzo Bernini display a loosening of formality and a trend towards movement. These artists produced a portrait type that was more inclusive of the viewer, more communicative, more revealing of a private...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503590837
• ISBN13: 9782503590837
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.