Celebrates the early virtuosity of Van Dyck with an in-depth study of the work he produced before the age of twenty-two By the age of twenty-two, Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) had produced more than 160 paintings, many of them ambitious compositions of remarkable quality. This book presents the work created during the eight years between 1613, when he was just fourteen, to his departure for Italy from Antwerp in October 1621. Were the paintings he created during these years his only legacy, he would still be recognized as one of the greatest artists of the seventeenth century. Van Dyck’s precocious talents are brilliantly demonstrated in the many important works reproduced here, among them such strikingly original masterpieces as The Taking of Christ and Saint Jerome in the Desert. Others―Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem and The Lamentation, for example―reveal Van Dyck at his most experimental, in search of new ways of increasing the visual impact of his compositions. Van Dyck was also one of the first painters to rise to the challenge of Rubens’s omnipresent influence, evident in works such as The Crowning with Thorns. 280 color illustrations

The Young Van Dyck

Arts & Photography

Vergara, Alejandro

Lammertse, Friso

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

In 1609 Rubens painted a large Adoration of the Magi for the Antwerp Town Hall. The painting made its way to the King of Spain and Rubens, arriving at the Spanish court in 1628, repainted, extended and refashioned the picture to his own satisfaction (incorporating a self-portrait). 
 The painting, now in the collection of the Prado, incorporates a dialogue by the painter himself. The picture has been newly conserved, and following the dialogue has been made easier by the existence of a copy in a private collection of the 1609 version of the much altered work. It has been the fascinating task of Prado curator Alejandro Vergara and the Prado conservation department to investigate the changes Rubens made and their motivation, while Joost vander Auwara provides a new analysis, employing new documents and rereading known ones, of the intentions and iconography of the original Antwerp commission.

Rubens: The Adoration of the Magi

Garrido, Carmen

Cabrero, Herlinda

Garcia-Maiquez, Jaime

University of Washington Press

¿Por qué decimos que una obra de arte es buena? ¿Qué es lo que queremos decir? Se ha escrito poco sobre la calidad en el arte, un concepto esquivo que, al perfilarse demasiado desde la subjetividad y los prejuicios, resulta difícil de concretar y definir. Se rebela Alejandro Vergara Sharp contra esta dificultad y, con una prosa cercana y directa, defiende que “un buen conocimiento de la historia del arte nos proporciona elementos de juicio que hacen que nuestra argumentación no sea simplemente subjetiva”. Invita entonces al lector a iniciar con él un viaje de investigación y, a la manera socrática, va desvelando, y desvelándose a sí mismo, una a una las cuestiones que pueden ayudar a esclarecer el término.

¿Qué es la calidad en el arte?

Tres Hermanas

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