Geometries of Silence: Three Approaches to Neoclassical Art
Based on little-known or hitherto unpublished material and enhanced by a wealth of rarely seen illustrations, this book offers access to the aesthetics of neoclassical Europe from a new perspective: landscape painting and interior decoration. The source documents, together with the nexus of relationships they helped to establish, reveal a world shaken by a series of epochal changes. This study of paintings, drawings, and documents touches on such themes as the rediscovery of the ancient...
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Based on little-known or hitherto unpublished material, and enhanced by a wealth of rarely seen illustrations, this book offers access to the aesthetics of neoclassical Europe from a new perspective: landscape painting and interior decoration.
1Antiquity as future : the past as a model for aesthetic renewal12Living in the "ancient style" : European residences and the Italian model553Landscapes of reason : the quest for basic geometric forms in landscape painting from David to Corot129
\ L'Indice\ - Enrico Castelnuovo\ Many years ago, Emil Kauffman illuminated the topic of the architects of the Age of Reason; Anna Ottani Cavina's [title] is a new episode of the very same history, the history of modernity.\ \ \ \ \ \ Burlington Magazine\ - Philippe Bordes\ The success of Anna Ottani Cavina's enterprise, allowing us henceforth to look differently at some luminous drawings and paintings, makes one yearn all the more to be able one day to look at the ambitious history paintings of the late eighteenth-century with the same penetration and sympathy.\ \ \ \ L'IndiceMany years ago, Emil Kauffman illuminated the topic of the architects of the Age of Reason; Anna Ottani Cavina's [title] is a new episode of the very same history, the history of modernity.\ — Enrico Castelnuovo\ \ \ \ \ \ Burlington MagazineThe success of Anna Ottani Cavina's enterprise, allowing us henceforth to look differently at some luminous drawings and paintings, makes one yearn all the more to be able one day to look at the ambitious history paintings of the late eighteenth-century with the same penetration and sympathy.\ — Philippe Bordes\ \ \
