Anthony Van Dyck and the Art of Portraiture
WARNING
You are viewing an older version of the Yalebooks website. Please visit out new website with more updated information and a better user experience: https://www.yalebooks.com
Christopher White
View Inside
Format: HC - Paper over BoardPrice: $45.00
Our shopping cart only supports Mozilla Firefox. Please ensure you're using that browser before attempting to purchase.
A beautiful, lively tour through the portraits of one of the most celebrated painters of 17th century Europe
In this sumptuously illustrated volume, eminent art historian Sir Christopher White places the portraiture of renowned Flemish painter Anthony Van Dyck (1599–1641) in context among the work of his contemporaries working in and around the courts of seventeenth-century Europe. Van Dyck’s artistic development is charted through his travels, beginning in his native Antwerp, then to England, Italy, Brussels, the Hague, and back again. Combining historical insights with a discerning appreciation of the work, White brings Van Dyck’s paintings to life, showing how the virtuoso not only admired his artistic predecessors and rivals but refashioned what he learned from them into new kind of portraiture. Beautifully produced and a pleasure to read, this book is an important contribution to the literature on a celebrated painter.
In this sumptuously illustrated volume, eminent art historian Sir Christopher White places the portraiture of renowned Flemish painter Anthony Van Dyck (1599–1641) in context among the work of his contemporaries working in and around the courts of seventeenth-century Europe. Van Dyck’s artistic development is charted through his travels, beginning in his native Antwerp, then to England, Italy, Brussels, the Hague, and back again. Combining historical insights with a discerning appreciation of the work, White brings Van Dyck’s paintings to life, showing how the virtuoso not only admired his artistic predecessors and rivals but refashioned what he learned from them into new kind of portraiture. Beautifully produced and a pleasure to read, this book is an important contribution to the literature on a celebrated painter.
Distributed for Modern Art Press
Sir Christopher White is a British art historian and curator.
“The reader cannot help but race alongside Van Dyck in his meteoric and short career.”—Xavier Salomon, The Art Newspaper
ISBN: 9780956800794
Publication Date: April 20, 2021
Publishing Partner: Distributed for Modern Art Press
Publication Date: April 20, 2021
Publishing Partner: Distributed for Modern Art Press
350 pages, 9 x 11
257 color + b/w illus.
257 color + b/w illus.
