Passion Renaissance: Légendes d'artistes au XIXe siècle. Théories de l’art devoid of any intention of

devoid of any intention of synthesis and reflecting the search for the clearest

and the precariousness of existence

one of the most famous Russian marine painters

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Irving Penn

Passion Renaissance: Légendes d'artistes au XIXe siècle. Théories de l’art devoid of any intention ofThe beginning of the 19th century saw the development of a significant artistic literature. Numerous works were published, disseminating biographies of the great masters of the past, and especially of the Renaissance. The lives of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangeloto name only the main onesthus provided ample subjects to depict, whether real events or anecdotes fabricated from scratch by biographers, led by Giorgio Vasari. The "Passion Renaissance"