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Le Caravage, peintre et assassin
La légende du peintre voyou et maudit qui s'attache au Caravage trouve ses origines dans la vie tumultueuse de cet homme, prompt à dégainer l'épée, jusqu'à l'assassinat qui fera de lui un fugitif. Mais il est également habile courtisan dans la Rome des années 1600, très vite peintre adulé des prélats et des princes. Il est enfin, en contraste avec la Renaissance, finissante et maniériste, le précurseur du réalisme en peinture, premier d'une famille d'artistes qui, même si elle n'a pas été une école, a pris le nom de caravagisme.C'est ce Caravage-là, peintre avant tout, que José Frèches suit dans les ruelles obscures de Rome, de Naples, de Malte ou de Syracuse...
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1965
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José Frèches
83 books16 followersEducation (school): São Paolo, Rome, Lisbon, Aix-en-Provence, Paris
Education (university): Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Aix-en-Provence,
Degrees in History of Art and Chinese, Masters in History, former pupil of ENA.
Professional career: curator of the Guimet museum at 21 years of age and lecturer at the Ecole du Louvre, José Frèches has held various positions in the communications, audiovisual and culture sectors (setting up the Vidéothèque of Paris and becoming President of Midi Libre)
Today, he is a member of the Artistic Council of the National Museums Group (Réunion des musées nationaux), and among other activities he puts his energy into a Parisian Communications Agency and is also the director of an art and antiques gallery in the Gard.
He initiated in 2005 the International Biennial of Chinese Contemporary Art in Montpellier, an event testifying for the huge development of China and of its culture. His novelistic trilogies, The Legend of the Jade and The Silk Empress (XO, 2002 and 2004) were tremendously successful: they sold more than one million copies and were translated into 11 languages. His biographical novel about Buddha, I Buddha, appealed to the general reader (90.000 copies were sold in France, apart from paperback) and to nine foreign publishers.
His first trilogy The Jade Disk is a story, set during the Warring States Period in disunited China. It tells the story from the character of the rich merchant and eventual prime-minister Lü Buwei - real father of the first emperor of China Qin Shi Huang. It portrays the struggles between the other kingdoms and Kingdom of Qin, destined to unite China.
His second trilogy The Empress of Silk is set in Medieval China during the Tang Dynasty. It depicts the story of Emperor Gaozong, the third emperor of Tang and his prominent and ambitious wife Wu Zetian, who after his death, virtually became the ruler of the country and the first female emperor in the history of China.
His latest series The Empire of Tears is set in mid-19th Century China, during the Opium Wars, where the empire is struggling and slowly decaying.
Education (university): Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Aix-en-Provence,
Degrees in History of Art and Chinese, Masters in History, former pupil of ENA.
Professional career: curator of the Guimet museum at 21 years of age and lecturer at the Ecole du Louvre, José Frèches has held various positions in the communications, audiovisual and culture sectors (setting up the Vidéothèque of Paris and becoming President of Midi Libre)
Today, he is a member of the Artistic Council of the National Museums Group (Réunion des musées nationaux), and among other activities he puts his energy into a Parisian Communications Agency and is also the director of an art and antiques gallery in the Gard.
He initiated in 2005 the International Biennial of Chinese Contemporary Art in Montpellier, an event testifying for the huge development of China and of its culture. His novelistic trilogies, The Legend of the Jade and The Silk Empress (XO, 2002 and 2004) were tremendously successful: they sold more than one million copies and were translated into 11 languages. His biographical novel about Buddha, I Buddha, appealed to the general reader (90.000 copies were sold in France, apart from paperback) and to nine foreign publishers.
His first trilogy The Jade Disk is a story, set during the Warring States Period in disunited China. It tells the story from the character of the rich merchant and eventual prime-minister Lü Buwei - real father of the first emperor of China Qin Shi Huang. It portrays the struggles between the other kingdoms and Kingdom of Qin, destined to unite China.
His second trilogy The Empress of Silk is set in Medieval China during the Tang Dynasty. It depicts the story of Emperor Gaozong, the third emperor of Tang and his prominent and ambitious wife Wu Zetian, who after his death, virtually became the ruler of the country and the first female emperor in the history of China.
His latest series The Empire of Tears is set in mid-19th Century China, during the Opium Wars, where the empire is struggling and slowly decaying.
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November 25, 2012
Michelangelo Merisi, also known as "Caravaggio" was born in 1573 and went to Rome when he was 15-years old.
About his style:
1. in his self-portrait the painter uses a clever play of mirrors that multiply his body while a lateral lighting is shimmer velvet costume and armor shine a thousand lights.
2. The use of warm colors only: cool tones disappear leaving room for a variety of crimson, ocher, sienna land and shadow which the painter is shimmer shades on funds darker.
3. The play of light reflecting mirror that will prefigure the great clear-obscure of the following years.
4. The use of a line engraved with the brush handle in the dough to identify the bodies, process used by Caravaggio in other occasions.
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his paintings and his flirtations with the underworld was directed by Derek JarmanCaravaggio (1986).
About his style:
1. in his self-portrait the painter uses a clever play of mirrors that multiply his body while a lateral lighting is shimmer velvet costume and armor shine a thousand lights.
2. The use of warm colors only: cool tones disappear leaving room for a variety of crimson, ocher, sienna land and shadow which the painter is shimmer shades on funds darker.
3. The play of light reflecting mirror that will prefigure the great clear-obscure of the following years.
4. The use of a line engraved with the brush handle in the dough to identify the bodies, process used by Caravaggio in other occasions.
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his paintings and his flirtations with the underworld was directed by Derek JarmanCaravaggio (1986).
May 28, 2022
MAY
by
José Frèches
Finish date: 22 May 2022
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: A++
Personal:
I just loved this book! It is a small compact (128 pg) analysis of Caravaggio's artistic career from his early struggle to make a living, through his first public commissions in Rome, and his growing celebrity status. This book is in French but if you could look for
by Sebastian Schütze (no photo) you won't be disappointed. The complete works is an expensive book...so the library would be your best bet!
If you are interested.....my complete review + images of Caravaggio's art are...
HERE
by
José FrèchesFinish date: 22 May 2022
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: A++
Personal:
I just loved this book! It is a small compact (128 pg) analysis of Caravaggio's artistic career from his early struggle to make a living, through his first public commissions in Rome, and his growing celebrity status. This book is in French but if you could look for
by Sebastian Schütze (no photo) you won't be disappointed. The complete works is an expensive book...so the library would be your best bet!If you are interested.....my complete review + images of Caravaggio's art are...
HERE
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