Adam Elsheimer 15781610 by Michael Maekgrard - 9781903470473

Adam Elsheimer 1578\u20131610\nby Michael Maekg\u00E9rard\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Michael Maekg\u00E9rard\nTitle: Adam Elsheimer 1578\u20131610\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Individual artists, art monographs\nPublisher: Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd\nPublication year: 2006\nISBN-13: 9781903470473\nISBN-10: 1903470471\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAdam Elsheimer is first recorded in 1600 and by 1610 he was dead. But, rather like Giorgione, who had died young in Venice 100 years earlier, Elsheimer was influential on the coming century to a degree out of all proportion to his brief career and small oeuvre. He developed a wonderful mastery of light, a dramatic chiaroscuro that gave new depth to his subject-matter, and a rather less definable poetic feeling that giv.