La Nature Morte by Claus Grimm, Signed by Chemiakin

Inscription by Chemiakin Published: 1992, La Renaissance du Livre Cover: Hardcover with original dust jacket Pages: 252 Language: French Condition: Used - Good ISBN: 2-8041-1619-0 This book is dedicated to the most beautiful still lifes of Northern Europe from the 17th and 18th centuries: Germany, Flanders, and Holland. This was the golden age, the era of Claesz, Kalf, and Jan Brueghel. More than a hundred paintings are reproduced in color, with preference given to lesser-known works and an emphasis on detail. The author reveals how artists gradually isolated the fruits, flowers, and objects that accompanied religious representations, giving them an independent role as symbolic still lifes. Each painting evokes an impression of tranquil meditation, spiritual communion, and sometimes sublimated sensuality. Faced with so many masterpieces, too little known in France, the reader is above all in for an extraordinary aesthetic pleasure.