Benjamin-Constant: Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0300210892 ISBN 13: 9780300210897

Casa editrice: Hazan Editeur, 2014

Riassunto

This fascinating book studies Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845–1902), one of the great Orientalist painters of the Third Republic in France. Renowned during his time but little known today, Benjamin-Constant created massive architectural compositions based on travels to Spain and Morocco, in which he set fierce-looking Moors and dispassionate odalisques. His history paintings, based on stories from the Bible and Byzantine history, were the culmination of his ventures into Orientalism, and his sparkling palette resulted in wonderfully chromatic and beautiful works. Benjamin-Constant also stands out as one of the era’s great painters of decorative cycles, from his work in Paris at the Opéra Comique and the Gare d’Orsay, to the Capitole in Toulouse. Generously illustrated and written by an international team of specialists on late-19th-century French art, this is the first book to focus on this captivating figure, offering new and unpublished research into his life and practices in his studio and at the Paris Salon.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Nathalie Bondil is director and chief curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hazan Editeur
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0300210892
• ISBN 13: 9780300210897
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 399
• Redattore: Bondil Nathalie