Frans Hals Av Lelia Packer, Ashok Roy

<p><b>This is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals''s highly innovative approach to male portraiture.</b><br><br>Frans Hals is one of the greatest portrait painters of all time and, together with Rembrandt, is one of the most eminent seventeenth-century Dutch artists. Published to coincide with the Wallace Collection''s exhibition of the same name, <i>Frans </i><i>Hals: The Male Portrait</i> explores the artist''s highly innovative approach to male portraiture, from the beginning of his career in the 1610s until the end of his life in 1666.<br><br>Through pose, expression and virtuosic painterly technique, Hals revolutionised the male portrait into something entirely new and fresh, capturing and revealing his sitters'' characters like no one else before him. This book includes the first in-depth study of Hals''s great masterpiece, <i>The Laughing </i><i>Cavalier</i>, from 1624. The extravagantly dressed young man, confidently posed with his left arm akim

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