Valentin de Boulogne
Subtitle: beyond Caravaggio
By: by Annick Lemoine and Keith Christiansen ; with contributions by Patrizia Cavazzini, Jean-Pierre Cuzin, and Gianni Papi
Contributors: Christiansen, Keith, author; Cavazzini, Patrizia, author; Cuzin, Jean-Pierre, 1944- author; Papi, Gianni, author; Valentin, de Boulogne, 1591-1632; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Musée du Louvre
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781588396020
Subjects: Influence; Exhibitions
Description: "Following Caravaggio's death in 1610, the French artist Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) emerged as one of the great champions of naturalist painting. The eminent art historian Roberto Longhi honored him as "the most energetic and passionate of Caravaggio's naturalist followers . . . With discussions of nearly fifty works, representing practically all of his painted oeuvre, Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio explores both the artist's superlative depictions of daily life and the tumultuous context in which they were produced . . . Rich with incident and insight, and beautifully illustrated with Valentin's complex, suggestive paintings, Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio reveals a seminal artist, a practitioner of realism in the seventeenth century who prefigured the naturalistic modernism of Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet two centuries later." -- Book jacket.
Notes: "This catalogue is published in conjunction with "Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio," on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 7, 2016 through January 16, 2017, and at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, from February 20 through May 22, 2017."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bowing to no one : Valentin's ambitions / Annick Lemoine; title: Success and failure in a violent city : Bartolomeo Manfredi, Nicolas Tournier, and Valentin de Boulogne / Patrizia Cavazzini; title: Valentin and his artistic formation in Rome / Gianni Papi; title: Painting from life : Valentin and the legacy of Caravaggio / Keith Christiansen; title: Valentin in the Grand Siècle / Annick Lemoine; title: Valentin : a French painter / Jean-Pierre Cuzin; title: Catalogue / Keith Christiansen and Annick Lemoine.