The young Van Dyck
By: edited by Alejandro Vergara and Friso Lammertse
Contributors: Museo del Prado
Publisher: Thames & Hudson; Thames and Hudson Ltd
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780500970508
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions; Childhood and youth
Description: "By the age of twenty-two, Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) had produced more than 160 paintings, many of them ambitious compositions of remarkable quality. This book presents the work created during the eight years between 1613, when he was just fourteen, to his departure for Italy from Antwerp in October 1621. Were the paintings he created during these years his only legacy, he would still be recognized as one of the greatest artists of the seventeenth century. Van Dyck's precocious talents are brilliantly demonstrated in the many important works reproduced here, among them such strikingly original masterpieces as The Taking of Christ and Saint Jerome in the Desert. Others--Christ's Entry into Jerusalem and The Lamentation, for example--reveal Van Dyck at his most experimental, in search of new ways of increasing the visual impact of his compositions. Van Dyck was also one of the first painters to rise to the challenge of Rubens's omnipresent influence, evident in works such as The Crowning with Thorns."--Publisher's website.
Notes: "This book was first published on the occasion of the exhibition The Young Van Dyck, at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 20 November 2012 to 3 March 2013"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Friso Lammertse and Alejandro Vergara; title: A portrait of Van Dyck as a young artist / Friso Lammertse and Alejandro Vergara; title: Anthony van Dyck: His early drawings during the first antwerp period / Anne-Marie Logan; title: Catalogue. Ronda Kasl ; Friso Lammertse ; Anne-Marie Logan ; José Juan Pérez Preciado ; Teresa Posada Kubissa ; Alejandro Vergara.; title: Introduction to the technical studies: The artistic practice of the young Van Dyck / Laura Alba, Maite Jover an María Dolores Gayo; title: Technical studies. Laura Alba ; María Delores Gayo ; Stephen Gritt ; Maite Jover ; Ronda Kasl ; Jacqueline Ridge ; Jevon Thistlewood.