Isbn: 9788836658770 - giovanni capassini (1 Ergebnisse)

224 pages, illustrated in black and white with 9 colour plates. Paperback 28 x 23cms. ISBN: 8836658776. Monograph on the Florentine artist, including a catalogue raisonne of 37 accepted works and 26 by Etienne de Martellange, his pupil. With an appendix containing 33 transcripts from contemporary sources (1527 to 1579). Focuses on Capassini's time in France working for François de Tournon, archbishop of Lyon, particularly on the panel for the trompe-l'oeil dome in his Château de Roussillon, the Triptyque de la Résurrection, and his portrait of Catherine de Medici. Highlights his mythological painting such as La Mort d'Adonis, and his images of the Holy Family and Madonna and Child, influenced by Raphael's Bridgewater Madonna and the Madonna del Prato. Also analyses Capassini's portraits of various patrons from Tournon-sur-Rhône, alongside those commissioned from Etienne de Martellange. Text in French.…