Andrea Mantegna  -  Dawson W. Carr

The Adoration of the Magi (Getty Museum Studies on Art)

KORTE INHOUD

Mantegna's magnificent painting, in the Getty collection, is based on one of Christianity's most beloved stories. The picture is much more than a Christmas-card image though. Dawson Carr explores Mantegna's life and milieu in fifteenth-century Padua and provides a fascinating closer look at the painting itself, considering Mantegna's innovative treatment of the subject, the relationship of the narrative to the viewer, and problems associated with the conservation of its beautiful, but fragile, distemper med...
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1998 Uitgever: Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum 96 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0892362871 ISBN-13: 9780892362875