The coffee table book "Escher" presents the highly original and unique art of one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. Published on the occasion of the Rome exhibition, the art book features more than 300 works, including new acquisitions and many of his most remarkable works that made him famous around the world.

Maurits Cornelis Escher was born in the Netherlands in 1898 and died there in 1972. In 1922 he visited Italy for the first time (Tuscany, Umbria and Liguria) and in 1923 he arrived in Rome, where he lived for twelve years, until 1935. The Roman period had a strong influence on all his later work, in which he produced many lithographs and etchings, especially of landscapes, vistas, architecture and views of that ancient and baroque Rome that he loved to explore in its most intimate dimension, that of the night, by the dim light of a lantern. Restless, reserved and undoubtedly brilliant, Escher created in his famous engravings and lithographs a unique, imaginative, impossible world where art, mathematics, science, physics and design converge.

The coffee-table book documents the story of the Dutch artist's genius with the most iconic works of his production such as Hand with Reflecting Sphere (1935), Bond of Union (1956), Metamorphosis II (1939), Day and Night (1938) and the Emblemata series, which belong to the general imagination referring to the great artist. The book also includes the complete series of 12 Roman Nocturnes from 1934. Escher is an artist who has not been around very long and is loved by art connoisseurs, as well as lovers of mathematics, geometry, science, design and graphics. Many different themes come together in his work, making him unique in the panorama of art history.

Specifications
Title: Escher
Author: Mark Veldhuysen
Publisher: Skira
Size: 251 x 309 x 33 mm
Size: 288 pages
Weight: 1811 grams
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9788857251431

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