Libros de Pintores y escultores, página 135 de 533

Este volumen de la colección Artes y Artistas estudia la vida y la obra de una de las figuras insignes de la imaginería levantina, el escultor murciano Francisco Salzillo. El libro se abre con unas notas biograficas que permiten seguir su evolucion desde los años de aprendizaje de la tecnica escultorica en el taller familiar, del que se hizo cargo a la muerte del padre, hasta la etapa de madurez artistica. Se estudian despues una a una, por orden cronologico, las esculturas de Salzillo, comenzando por la que pasa por ser su primera obra, la imagen de Santa Ines de Monte Pulciano, para seguir despues por los pasos para las procesiones de la conocida popularmente como Semana Mayor y terminar con las imagenes del monumental Belen. Numerosas laminas ilustran la descripcion de las figuras, el analisis del colorido y de disposicion de los paños y el estudio de la anatomia y de la expresion de los rostros.

Goya An introduction to the work of Francisco Goya.Enriqueta Harris One of a series of introductory books on the great masters and movements in art This volume on Goya contains an extensive essay, 48 full-page colour plates, and is accompanied by extensive notes and comparative illustrations Provides incomparable value Highly regarded for its insight and authority Goya (1746-1828) is one of Spains most famous artists and is widely acknowledged as an outstanding painter in the European tradition, often called the last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns. He is appreciated as a portrait painter; a creator of menacing and melancholy images in oils; a master of enigmatic, satirical and revolutionary drawing and etching; the champion of Spanish people in their struggle against oppression and the recorder of their life and sufferings in war. This book brings out many of Goyas moods, from the gaiety and tenderness of the tapestry cartoons to the mysterious ferocity of the Black Paintings made in his old age.

92 plates from Book of Job, Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, visionary heads, mythological figures, Laocoon, etc.