Title: Valentin de Boulogne
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.
Subjects: Influence, Exhibitions, Caravaggio, michelangelo merisi da, 1573-1610, Painting, italian, Painting, exhibitions, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
People: Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632), Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610)