Ideal Landscape: Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain
by: Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlof

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1990, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 247 pages with 105 plates (many color)."Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin, and Claude Lorrain were the masters of ideal, or heroic, landscape painting in the seventeenth century. In this original and highly sophisticated book, Margaretha Lagerlof interprets these paintings in a new way, examining them from four perspectives relevant to their contemporaries - those of drama, rhetoric, utopianism, and metaphysics."