Title:
Georges de La Tour / Jacques Thuillier ; translated from the French by Fabia Claris.
Author:
Thuillier, Jacques.
Publication Information:
Paris : Flammarion, 2002, ©1993.
Call Number:
ND553 .L28 T5 2002
Abstract:
Georges de La Tour ranks with Vermeer and the Le Nain brothers among those seventeenth-century painters whose unmistakable talent is matched only by the aura of mystery that surrounds the artists themselves. Jacques Thuillier's groundbreaking monograph, first published in 1993, places La Tour's oeuvre in the specific context of the Lorraine region where he lived and worked, but also repositions La Tour alongside the greatest European masters. Available for the first time in paperback, this beautifully designed volume, complete with an illustrated catalogue raisonne and translations of key documentary sources, remains the essential reference work on this important and fascinating artist. Book jacket.
ISBN:
9782080108746
Physical Description:
320 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map, chiefly color portraits ; 33 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: 1993.
Contents:
A Young Painter from VIC -- The World of Lorraine -- La Tour's Calling -- Apprenticeship -- The Voyage to Italy -- La Tour Before La Tour? -- The Certainties of Realism -- The Return to Lorraine -- Marriage to Diane -- The Move to Luneville -- La Tour, the Provincial Painter -- Caravaggesque Realism: The Albi Apostles -- The First "Series": St. Peter and St. Jerome -- The Half-figure Genre Scenes -- The Large Single-figure Paintings -- Painting, Triumph, and Tragedy -- Errors and Misfortunes of Ducal Policy -- Disastrous Times -- La Tour, the Duke, and the King -- La Tour and the Tragedy of Lorraine -- "Refuge" in Nancy and Paris -- The Artist's Response -- The Advent of the Night Pictures -- The Great Daylight Masterpieces -- The Development of the Nocturnes -- Meditation Shattered -- Hard Times in Lorraine -- Georges de La Tour, "Lord" of Luneville -- Glory and Isolation -- The Great Nocturnes -- From Georges to Etienne de La Tour -- La Tour Today.
Uniform Title:
Georges de La Tour. English
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