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De laatste Caravaggio
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ISBN: 9789040077845 9040077843 Year: 2010 Publisher: Zwolle Waanders

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Essays over het leven en werk van de Italiaanse schilder Caravaggio (1571-1610) en analyse van het schilderij 'De liggende Johannes de Doper'.


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Georges de La Tour.
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ISBN: 9782080201454 Year: 2012 Publisher: Paris Flammarion

Shadows : The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art : A companion volume to an exhibition at The National Gallery
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ISBN: 0300063571 9780300063578 1857090918 9781857090918 Year: 1995 Publisher: London National Gallery Publications

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Cast shadows have been exploited in art to enhance the impression of the surrounding light as well as that of the solidity of the casting objects. They can contribute to the mood of the scene, and can reveal the presence of features outside the space represented, but as Professor Gombrich points out, they appear only sporadicaly and have been more frequently ignored or suppressed in Western art. Gombrich touches on the ambiguous nature of shadows in myth, legend, and philosophy, and briefly analyses the factors governing their shape: the location and form of the light source, the shape of the illuminated object and that of the surface on which the shadow falls, and the position of the viewer. Early Renaissance painters such as Masaccio and Campin, intent on a faithful rendering of visual reality, did incorporate shadows in their art, but artists of Leonardo's time largely avoided painting them, and it was not until early in the seventeenth century that painters - particualrly Caravaggio and Rembrandt - were again interested in the effects of shadows. In subsequent centuries artists of the Romantic, Impressionist and Surrealist movements exploited the device of the cast shadow to enhance the realism or drama of their images.

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