MASTERPIECES OF FRENCH PAINTING (Fifteenth to Mid-Nineteenth Centuries) Book by MARGARETTA SALINGER : Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Fantastic mounted plates. pages and plates bright. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

Format: Softcover

Author: Margaretta Salinger

ISBN:

Publication year: 1959

Condition: Used - Good



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About the book >.>.> Masterpieces of French Painting Book by Margaretta Salinger

Masterpieces of French Painting surveys French painting from the fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The text by Margaretta Salinger, of the Department of Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, considers the character of French culture through its relationship to order, form and systems.

Salinger contrasts accounts of a distinctive Spanish temperament, associated with powerful emotion, with the idea of French civilisation, which emphasises the cultivation of forms and systems to shape feeling into disciplined order. She illustrates this argument with examples from French intellectual and artistic traditions: the medieval philosophers of the school of Paris, the development of Gothic vaulting in French cathedral architecture, and Nicolas Poussin’s deliberate use of classical principles in composition and colour. The discussion frames French painting within a wider history of approaches to structure and artistic form. (SP)