Julian Bell
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeenth-century Europe swirled with conjectures and debates over what was real and what constituted 'nature', currents that would soon gather force to form modern science. Natural Light deliberates on the era's uncertainties, as distilled in the work of painter Adam Elsheimer -- a short-lived, tragic German artist who has always been something of a cult secret. Elsheimer's diminutive, intense and mysterious narrative compositions related figures...