Georges de La Tour and His World

by Philip Conisbee (Editor)

Presents a complete, illustrated overview of the work and world of the seventeenth-century French painter, exploring his development as a painter, the contemporary replication of his work, and the place of his art in his time. UP.

Genres: Art

320 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1996

Reviews

[Horus · Rating 4 out of 5]

For those interested in art history or Georges de la Tour specifically, this book is for you. Produced in conjunction with a North American exhibit, it has many exceptionally good photos with detailed magnification. Many of the articles are quite interesting and cover everything from what we know of de la Tour’s life, to the technical details of how experts feel he painted. The details are slim however, as he is one of the most recent masters to be discovered, and very little of his life and methodology are actually known. A caution: my copy of this edition suffered a printing error which duplicated almost 100 pages, instead of the sequential pages that should have been in their stead. This is an unfortunate error for a catalogue which could not have been cheap to print or to purchase new. Buyer beware.