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Livres anciens et modernes

Cumming Laura

The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez

Chatto & Windus (7 gennaio 2016),

26,00 €

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(Roma, Italie)

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Détails

Auteur
Cumming Laura
Éditeurs
Chatto & Windus (7 gennaio 2016)
Thème
Arte Art
Description
As New
Description
H
Jaquette
Oui
Etat de conservation
Comme neuf
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Non

Description

8vo, hardcover in dj, 296pp. In 1845, a Berkshire bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long lost Velazquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history. When Laura Cumming stumbled on a startling trial involving John Snare, it sent her on a search of her own. At first she was pursuing the picture, and the life and work of the elusive painter, but then she found herself following the bookseller's fortunes too, from London to Edinburgh to nineteenth century New York, from fame to ruin and exile. An innovative fusion of detection and biography, this book shows how and why great works of art can affect us, even to the point of mania, and on the trail of John Snare, Cumming makes a surprising discovery of her own. But most movingly
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