Main entry:

Lagerlöf, Margaretha Rossholm, 1943-

Title & Author:

Ideal landscape : Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin, and Claude Lorrain / Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1990.

Description:

viii, 247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
"Translated from the Swedish original by Nancy Adler"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-243) and index.
Introduction -- Nature as creation and drama : landscape and the Humanist theory of art -- Annibale Carracci, Nicholas Poussin and Claude Gellee, known as Claude Lorrain -- A stage for life and action -- "As though it were happening before our eyes." The ideal landscape and rhetoric -- The world as it ought to be : the ideal landscapes and utopia -- Nature, God, "Idea" and harmony : the ideal landscape and metaphysics -- Model of a method.

Summary:

An examination of the landscape paintings of Carracci, Poussin and Lorrain from four perspectives relevant to their contemporaries - those of drama, rhetoric, utopianism and metaphysics.

ISBN:

0300047630
9780300047639

Subject:

Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609 Criticism and interpretation.
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665 Criticism and interpretation.
Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682 Criticism and interpretation.
Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.
Claude, 1600-1682.
Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682
Carracci, Annibal, (1560-1609)
Carracci, Annibale, (1560-1609) Critique et interprétation.
Poussin, Nicolas, (1594-1665) Critique et interprétation.
Lorrain, Claude, (1600-1682) Critique et interprétation.
Landscape painting 16th century.
Landscape painting 17th century.
Arcadia in art.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Peinture de paysages 16e siècle.
Peinture de paysages 17e siècle.
Nature (Esthétique)
Landscape painting.
Landschapschilderkunst.
Nature (esthétique)
Peinture de paysages France 17e siècle.
Peinture de paysages de la Renaissance.
Peinture de paysages Italie 16e siècle.
Paintings Special subjects Landscapes

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Illustrated works.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 56990
Call No.: ID:90-B5301
Status: Available