Tierfabeln von Äsop bis La Fontaine in Gemäldeserien seit 1600.

Title

en_US Tierfabeln von Äsop bis La Fontaine in Gemäldeserien seit 1600.

en_US Studien zur Internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte 182

Description

en_US Language note: German

Lisanne Wepler

Creator

en_US Wepler, Lisanne See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2022-11-07T16:11:46Z

2021-04

en_US 2021

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:11:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 2021

Abstract

en_US Every now and then a serious and expensive volume appears, on which people have worked hard to bring together a significant array of art and insight. This tome is one of those. Its 300 large-format (9½” x 12”) pages are filled with image and information. Maybe start with 292, just before the "Literaturverzeichnis": it looks like a bookshelf of mine. Variants of this motif appear elsewhere in the volume. In each of the five principal chapters, a century forms the backdrop for a set of some six or eight visual stops or even tours. The first of these takes us “Auf den Spuren der Fabeltiere.” We get used to enjoying one beautiful and well-presented image after another. The second chapter begins with a strong full-page detail of Franz Snyder’s painting of the stork’s revenge-meal in a vase, complete with the eel and two swimming frogs. Along the way here, I am glad to see illustrations by Sadeler and many by Gheeraerts. The particular focus here is on Flemish images in Spanish possession in the seventeenth century. Do not miss Paul de Vos’ DS on 37; a detail appears on the book’s front cover. Chapter 3 is all about Oudry and his influence in the 18th century. Chapter 4 is “Bunte Vielfalt in England im 19. Jahrhundert.” Among the many pictured here are Crane, Robinson, Detmold, Rae, Rackham, Folkard, Grandville, Doré, Griset, and then back to Barlow, Kirkall, and Bewick. An important painter in this chapter is John Bucknell Russel and an important place is Castell Coch. The last substantive chapter, far shorter than the others, traces painted series into the twentieth century. The sixth chapter catalogues the illustrations and offers a text for each fable, with a reference to the multiple appearances of that fable. There is so much here!

Identifier

en_US 12624 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/138821

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Michael Imhoff Verlag

en_US Petersberg

Subject

Various See all items with this value