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  1. Son of the Laocoön
    Alonso Berruguete and pagan Antiquity
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Secretaría General Técnica, Subdirección General de Documentación y Publicaciones, [Madrid] ; CEEH Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica

    Alonso Berruguete (c. 1489?1561), the first Spanish Renaissance sculptor, spent a fruitful stint in Italy, where he came into contact with Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante and was influenced by their enthusiasm for ancient ideals and their... more

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Alonso Berruguete (c. 1489?1561), the first Spanish Renaissance sculptor, spent a fruitful stint in Italy, where he came into contact with Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante and was influenced by their enthusiasm for ancient ideals and their attitude to art. Sarcophaguses, ruins and statues fired his imagination, especially the Laocoön: its theatrical pathos, anatomical virtuosity, and bodies dancing in space left an indelible mark on his oeuvre. Upon his return to Castile he felt himself to be a Renaissance man, a new artist willing to defy the old authorities and defend his ingenium. Drawing on this heritage, he produced works steeped in emotion and visual vehemence that reveal an obsessive preference for the sombre and nocturnal brand of Renaissance art: Dionysian as opposed to Apollonian brand, characterised by tormented and exaggerated gestures, expressive frenzy and the terribilità suffered by Laocoön's sons. For Berruguete's pulsating modernity stems from his anticlassical classicism, the importance he attaches to freedom of rhythm and anguish, and an extreme subjectivity that combines the force of the ancient with the freshness of the modern

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Arias Martínez, Manuel (Publisher); Dodman, Jenny
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9788481817034; 9788415245803
    Subjects: Rezeption; Mensch <Motiv>; Antike; Plastik
    Other subjects: Berruguete, Alonso (1486-1561); Hagesander (ca. v50): Laokoongruppe
    Scope: 219 Seiten, 30 cm
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    "Gobierno de España, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, CEEH Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, with the collaboration of CSA Center for Spain in America"

    "First published in Spanish under the title Hijo del Laocoonte. Alonso Berruguete y la Antigüedad pagana by the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, 2017"--Colophon

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Son of the Laocoön
    Alonso Berruguete and pagan antiquity
    Contributor: Arias Martínez, Manuel (HerausgeberIn, VerfasserIn von ergänzendem Text)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Gobierno de España, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, Madrid ; CEEH, Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica

    Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid, Spain, July 5-Nov. 5, 2017. - Orig. title: Hijo del Laocoonte. - A. Berruguete (1480?- 1561), Spanish painter, sculptor and architect more

    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2018 D 1633
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    Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid, Spain, July 5-Nov. 5, 2017. - Orig. title: Hijo del Laocoonte. - A. Berruguete (1480?- 1561), Spanish painter, sculptor and architect

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Arias Martínez, Manuel (HerausgeberIn, VerfasserIn von ergänzendem Text)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9788481817034; 9788415245803
    Subjects: Human figure in art; Human figure in art
    Other subjects: Berruguete, Alonso 1480?-1561; Berruguete, Alonso 1480?-1561; Laocoön
    Scope: 219 Seiten, 30 cm
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    Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo nacional de escultura de Valladolid, Spain, July 5-Nov. 5, 2017