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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bell, Julian, 1952- author.     Subjects     Elsheimer, Adam, 1578-1610 -- Criticism and interpretation.     Painting, German -- 17th century.     Artists -- Germany -- 17th century -- Criticism and interpretation.     Nature in art.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bell, Julian, 1952- author.       by title:      Natural light : the ...         MARC Display

Natural light : the art of Adam Elsheimer and the dawn of modern science / by Julian Bell. by Bell, Julian, 1952- author. New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Inc., 2023. Subjects Elsheimer, Adam, 1578-1610 -- Criticism and interpretation.   Painting, German -- 17th century.   Artists -- Germany -- 17th century -- Criticism and interpretation.   Nature in art. ISBN:  9780500024072 (hardback) : 0500024073 hardback Description:  255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm Contents:  Introduction -- 1 Behind the Hill -- 2 Art and Honour -- 3 Species -- 4 The Goddess with the Vessel -- 5 The Goddess with the Wheel -- 6 Immensity -- 7 No Man's Land -- Chronology of the Life and Works of Adam Elsheimer -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Sources of Illustrations. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Seventeenth-century Europe swirled with conjectures and debates over what was real and what constituted 'nature', currents that would soon gather force to form modern science. Natural Light deliberates on the era's uncertainties, as distilled in the work of painter Adam Elsheimer -- a short-lived, tragic German artist who has always been something of a cult secret. Elsheimer's diminutive, intense and mysterious narrative compositions related figures to landscape in new ways, projecting unfamiliar visions of space at a time when Caravaggio was polarizing audiences with his radical altarpieces and circles of "natural philosophers" -- early modern scientists -- were starting to turn to the new "world system" of Galileo. Julian Bell transports us to the spirited Rome of the 1600s, where Elsheimer and other young Northern immigrants -- notably his friend Peter Paul Rubens -- swapped pictorial and poetic reference points. Focusing on some of Elsheimer's most haunting compositions, Bell drives at the anxieties that underlie them -- puzzling over existential questions that still have relevance today. Traditional themes for imagery are expressed with fresh urgency, most of all in Elsheimer's final painting, a vision of the night sky of unprecedented poetic power that was completed at a time of ferment in astronomy. Circulated through prints, Elsheimer's pictorial inventions affected imaginations as disparate as Rembrandt, Lorrain and Poussin. They even reached artists in Mughal India, whose equally impassioned miniatures expand our sense of what 'nature' might be. As we home in on artworks of microscopic finesse, the whole of the 17th-century globe and its perplexities starts to open out around us." -- Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Adult New Books 759.3 Be Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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