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OverviewFrench painters have historically taken to landscape with a zeal unmatched by artists of any other nationality. This volume traces the history of that engagement with nature from the late Renaissance, when landscape painting first emerged from the background of narrative representation, up to the eve of Impressionism in the nineteenth century. French artists faced many choices as they made their way through the rural landscape. John Varriano's essay emphasizes the role the classicizing Italianate idiom of Poussin and Claude played in the French imagination for much of that time. Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, who was for landscape painting what Jacques-Louis David was for history painting, constitutes a major turning point in that tradition. Wendy Watson's essay explores the intellectual foundations of his work and his renewal of the classical legacy in landscape painting. With time, French landscape painters came to question the authority of the inherited tradition. Michael Marlais's essay not only demonstrates that Charles-Francois Daubigny was central to that conceptual change but also explains the reasons artists began rethinking, while not totally abandoning, classical formulas. Valenciennes, Daubigny, and the Origins of French Landscape Painting contains 30 color illustrations as well as a checklist of the 2004 exhibition at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum that occasioned its publication. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael Marlais , John Varriano , Wendy WatsonPublisher: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum Imprint: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum Dimensions: Width: 27.90cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.313kg ISBN: 9780972122207ISBN 10: 0972122206 Pages: 64 Publication Date: 19 November 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsContents Foreword Marianne Doezema 1. Landscape Painting Before Valenciennes John Varriano 2. Tradition and Innovation: Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes and the Neoclassical Landscape Wendy M. Watson 3. Charles-Francois Daubigny and the Traditions of French Landscape Painting Michael Marlais Exhibition Checklist Photograph CreditsReviewsThough one may stay in Rome for many years, finally one has to return home. -Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes Author InformationMichael Marlais is the James M. Gillespie Professor of Art History at Colby College. He is the author of Conservative Echoes in Fin-de-Siecle Parisian Art Criticism (Penn State, 1992). John Varriano is the Idella Plimpton Kendall Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture (1986), Rome, A Literary Companion (1991), and Caravaggio and the Art of Realism (forthcoming, Penn State). Wendy M. Watson is curator of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. She is the author of Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection (1986), Italian Renaissance Ceramics from the Howard I. Janet H. Stein Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2001), and the co-author of Summit, Vittorio Sella, Mountaineer and Photographer, The Years 1879-1909 (Aperture, 1999). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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