Jacobus Agnesius (1 results)

Softcover. Black wraps with color illustration. 43 pp. Color illustrations. "The highly dramatic Saint Sebastian is a work of extraordinary artistic ambition and achievement. It epitomizes the Baroque artistic ideal to express the strongest, deepest and most sublime emotions via an extreme muscular tension and contortion of the human body. Spanning 64 centimeters (25.2 in.) from the right foot to the left index finger, it is amongst the largest ivory figures ever made. As the size alone indicates, the hitherto unpublished Saint Sebastian must have been a very important commission for Jacobus Agnesius, whose oeuvre is systematically reconstructed and analyzed in the following pages for the first time." VG (some minor wear to edges of wraps).