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Children of Mercury

Spike Bucklow
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      Children of Mercury is a bold new account of the lives of pre-modern painters, viewed through the lens of The Seven Ages of Man, a widespread belief made famous in the ‘All the world’s a stage’ speech in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Spike Bucklow follows artists’ lives from infancy, through childhood, adolescence and adulthood, to maturity, old age and death. He tracks how lives unfolded for both male and female painters, from the famous, like Michelangelo, through Artemisia Gentileschi and Mary Beale to those who are now forgotten, like Jehan Gillemer. The book draws on historic biographies, artists’ own writings and, uniquely, the physical evidence offered by their paintings.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Spike Bucklow EAN: 9781789145236 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Reaktion Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-04-11 CITY: GENRE: ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      History of art, Collected biographies

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      Spike Bucklow is Professor of Material Culture and the Conservation Scientist at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous books on artists’ materials and methods, including The Anatomy of Riches: Sir Robert Paston’s Treasure (Reaktion, 2018).
      Children of Mercury is a bold new account of the lives of pre-modern painters, viewed through the lens of The Seven Ages of Man, a widespread belief made famous in the ‘All the world’s a stage’ speech in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Spike Bucklow follows artists’ lives from infancy, through childhood, adolescence and adulthood, to maturity, old age and death. He tracks how lives unfolded for both male and female painters, from the famous, like Michelangelo, through Artemisia Gentileschi and Mary Beale to those who are now forgotten, like Jehan Gillemer. The book draws on historic biographies, artists’ own writings and, uniquely, the physical evidence offered by their paintings.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Spike Bucklow EAN: 9781789145236 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Reaktion Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-04-11 CITY: GENRE: ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      History of art, Collected biographies

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      Spike Bucklow is Professor of Material Culture and the Conservation Scientist at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous books on artists’ materials and methods, including The Anatomy of Riches: Sir Robert Paston’s Treasure (Reaktion, 2018).

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