The sea in the collections of the Prado Museum
Fernando Checa Cremades et al.
ISBN: 978-84-120107-6-3
Year: 2019
Pages: 216
Illustrations: 106
Binding:
Size: 26 x 33 cm
Published by: Madrid, El Viso Editions
Third prize for the best edited art book of 2020 .
The sea is a pictorial subject. As an immense, fearsome space, completely beyond human control, the sea was for artists a landscape more fantastic than real, a scene of storms, shipwrecks, and battles.
It has been represented as a smooth, shining surface, subject to the rigors of cartography, a natural extension of the territory over which civilization already exercised its rule. And it has finally become an element of seduction for artists. This book, alongside a selection of one hundred works from the Museo Nacional del Prado, brings together six enriching short essays by Fernando Checa, Daniel Crespo, María de los Santos García Felguera, Matteo Mancini, Miguel Morán, and José Juan Pérez Preciado on the sea, how it has been a central subject for painters, clients, and the public, and the prominent presence of its blue waters in the Museo del Prado's collections.
The sea in the collections of the Prado Museum
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The sea in the collections of the Prado Museum
Sale price€58,00