Ideal landscape
Subtitle: Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin, and Claude Lorrain
By: Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609 -- Criticism and interpretation; Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665 -- Criticism and interpretation; Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682 -- Criticism and interpretation; Landscape painting -- 16th century; Landscape painting -- 17th century; Arcadia in art; Nature (Aesthetics)
Description: An examination of the landscape paintings of Carracci, Poussin and Lorrain from four perspectives relevant to their contemporaries - those of drama, rhetoric, utopianism and metaphysics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-243) and index.
"Translated from the Swedish original by Nancy Adler"--T.p. verso.