Research Catalog

Title

Children of mercury : the lives of the painters / Spike Bucklow.

Author

Bucklow, Spike

Publication

• London : Reaktion Books, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

192 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour); 22 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Painters > History
• Art > History
• Art, Renaissance
• Art
• Painters

Genre/Form

• History.
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-180) and index.

Contents

Prologue -- 'Mewling and puking' babies -- Learning the ropes -- Feeling the pull -- Influencing -- The big push -- Arrival -- Leaving the stage -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JQD 23-8

ISBN

• 9781789145236
• 1789145236

OCLC

1273670986

Author

Bucklow, Spike, author.

Title

Children of mercury : the lives of the painters / Spike Bucklow.

Publisher

London : Reaktion Books, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-180) and index.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781789145243

Research Call Number

JQD 23-8