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Dormandy, Thomas
Old Masters: Great Artists in Old Age
London and New York Hambledon and London 2000 1852852909 / 9781852852900 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Cloth, gilt, viii, 389 pp., [16] pp. of plates, illus. (some col.), bib. notes, indexes; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Donatello, Titian, Hals, Turner, Renoir and Munch, and a surprisingly large number of other major artists, lived to be over seventy-five. Some of their finest and most distinctive work, including Michelangelo's last Pietà, Goya's Black Paintings and Monet's Water Lilies, was done in old age. Whether experimenting with new approaches, adopting new techniques, responding to changed circumstances and debilities, or reacting to the approach of death, the intensity of the late work of many of the greatest artists is striking. Childhood genius has often been studied but, astonishingly, this is the first book to draw attention to a considerably more important artistic phenomenon. Old Masters establishes beyond doubt the frequency with which elderly painters and sculptors reached new heights in their seventies and eighties and suggest why and how they did so. / THOMAS DORMANDY is a consultant pathologist and the author of The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis." - Publisher.
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