Realism and Role-Play: The Human Figure in French Art from Callot to the Brothers Le Nain

by Marika Takanishi Knowles

Book Overview

After the heroic nudes of the Renaissance and depictions of the tortured bodies of Christian saints, early seventeenth-century French artists turned their attention to their fellow humans, to nobles and beggars seen on the streets of Paris, to courtesans standing at their windows, to vendors advertising their wares, to peasants standing before their landlords. Fascinated by the intricate politics of the encounter between two human beings, artists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644532050
• ISBN13: 9781644532058
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 14.4"