Venus, Adonis and Cupid by Annibale Carracci: Venus Adinis and Cupid - Softcover

Cobos, Andres Ubeda De Los; Morales, Maria Alvarez-Garcillan; Mozo, Ana Gonzalez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903470404 ISBN 13: 9781903470404

Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

This book accompanied an exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado which aimed to present the newly cleaned and restored masterpiece by the Bolognese painter Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) and to set the painting in its artistic context. Two further, richly illustrated essays describe the conservation of the work and analyse the way in which Carraccis painting - his image of beauty - is constructed.

About this title

Synopsis:

Annibale Carracci was the great genius of early Baroque painting in Italy, blighted by melancholia at the end of his life but full of promise and invention in his prime. This book concentrates on one of his most ambitious early works, the Venus, Adonis and Cupid in the Prado Museum, Madrid. This is the English edition of a publication by the Prado specially dedicated to this painting, which has recently been cleaned and restored and is being displayed beside works by Veronese and Titian on the same subject with which Annibale was consciously competing. The subject, which is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses, was regarded in the Renaissance period as offering the greatest possible scope for a painter's brush - a male and a female nude, strong emotion, pathos, heroism - and, since Adonis was a hunter, dogs as well. The Venus and Adonis, despite its importance in Annibale's oeuvre and its monumental size, has been comparatively little studied. This book reveals important new information about Annibale Carracci, technically, creatively, stylistically.

The book is superbly produced and illustrated (in five-colour process) and is part of a series of Prado publications devoted to individual masterpieces in the Museum.

About the Author:

The author is Curator of Italian Paintings at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, and the book accompanies an exhibition of related works beside the painting from 19 April to 17 July 2005.

About this edition

• Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1903470404
• ISBN 13: 9781903470404
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200