Georges de la Tour and the Enigma of the Visible
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780823277438
Subjects: Visual perception; Painting, baroque; Painting, french
Description: "Not rediscovered until the twentieth century, the works of Georges de La Tour retain an aura of mystery. Their veritable celebration of light and the familiar, visible world, blinds the beholder to a deeper understanding of the meanings associated with vision and the visible in the early modern period"--