Contemporary of Vasari’s hero, Michelangelo, and like him a sculptor as much as a painter, Domenico Beccafumi could nonetheless hardly present a more different artistic personality. His calligraphically curved figures—often wispy and strangely insubstantial, and bathed in a mysterious gloom—look away from classicism to the picturesqueness of early Sienese painting and the most romantic elements of Mannerism. His idiosyncratic achievement is a fascinating example of the unexpected riches of Italian renaissance art outside the well-trodden paths of Florence and Rome. Vasari’s biography is our main source of information for his life, and remains a fascinating description of an unmistakably individual artist.
Contemporary of Vasari’s hero, Michelangelo, and like him a sculptor as much as a painter, Domenico Beccafumi could nonetheless hardly present a more different artistic personality. His calligraphically curved figures—often wispy and strangely insubstantial, and bathed in a mysterious gloom—look away from classicism to the picturesqueness of early Sienese painting and the most romantic elements of Mannerism. His idiosyncratic achievement is a fascinating example of the unexpected riches of Italian renaissance art outside the well-trodden paths of Florence and Rome. Vasari’s biography is our main source of information for his life, and remains a fascinating description of an unmistakably individual artist.
The Life of Beccafumi
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The Life of Beccafumi
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| ISBN-13: | 9781843680284 |
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| Publisher: | Pallas Athene (UK) |
| Publication date: | 02/01/2009 |
| Series: | Lives of the Artists series |
| Pages: | 96 |
| Product dimensions: | 4.50(w) x 5.60(h) x 0.30(d) |