Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science

by Julian Bell

Seventeenth-century Europe swirled with conjectures and debates over what was real and what constituted "nature," currents that would soon gather force to form modern science.

Natural Light deliberates on the era's uncertainties, as distilled in the work of long underappreciated artist Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610), a native of Frankfurt who settled in Rome and whose diminutive and mysterious narrative compositions related figures to landscape...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500024073
• ISBN13: 9780500024072
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"