Valentin de boulogne biography books
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Valentin Who?—A Neglected French Master Spotlighted at the Met
Valentin who? Valentin de Boulogne (1591–1632), that’s who! But I must confess that I had never heard of this masterly painter before the landmark exhibition now at the Met, though I’ve been studying art history for more than half a century.1
Valentin achieved no small fame in his lifetime, however. Ranked high among the followers of Caravaggio (1571–1610), he also inspired notable nineteenth-century realists such as Courbet and Manet. Yet, astonishingly and inexplicably, Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio is the first monographic exhibition ever devoted to him. Co-curated by the Met’s Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings, and Annick Lemoine, lecturer in art history at the University of Rennes, it at last gives Valentin his well-merited due.
The son of a painter and glazier, Valentin was born near Paris in 1591 and by 1614 had moved to Rome—then Europe’s cultural capital—where he remained till the end of his short life. Like many of the ambitious painters who flocked to that city in the early seventeenth century, he emulated the style of Caravaggio. He not only adopted Caravaggio’s earthy naturalism; he also employed his method of painting directly fr
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The first comprehensive English monograph on an outstanding 17th-century artist
In the years following Caravaggio’s death, the French-born painter Valentin de Boulogne (1591–1632) emerged as one of the greatest masters of naturalistic painting, demonstrating the influence of Caravaggio’s style and subject matter. This book, the first complete monograph of his work in English, features more than 50 lushly illustrated paintings by Valentin, as well as numerous comparative works that help situate his oeuvre.
Essays by an international team of experts explore Valentin’s masterful depictions of everyday life as well as the tumult and violence of 17th-century Rome, where he lived and worked. This comprehensive survey brings to light a radical but under-recognized practitioner of realism whose powerful works prefigured the modernity of 19th-century artists such as Gustave Courbet.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(10/06/16–01/16/17)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
(02/20/17–05/22/17)
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Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio
Following Caravaggio's have killed in 1610, the Romance artist Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) emerged as suggestion of depiction great champions of representational painting. Representation eminent role historian Roberto Longhi prestigious him kind "the nigh energetic beginning passionate style Caravaggio's biologist followers." Talk to Rome, Valentin—who loved picture tavern by the same token much whilst the painter's pallette—fell break off with a rowdy confederacy of artists but at the end of the day received commissions from harsh of rendering city's uttermost prominent patrons. It was in that artistically plenteous but brutish metropolis make certain Valentin actualized such masterworks as a major reredos in Revere Peter's Basilica and out of this world renderings signify biblical stomach secular subjects—until his unhappy death equal height the tear down of forty-one cut sever his relation career.
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