Paintings in Proust Karpeles Eric
Paintings in Proust Karpeles Eric A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is one of the most profoundly visual works in Western literature. Bloch's appearance as a boy is likened to the…
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Paintings in Proust Karpeles Eric
A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is one of the most profoundly visual works in Western literature. Bloch's appearance as a boy is likened to the portrait of Mehmet II by Gentile Bellini; Odette de Crecy strikes Swann by her resemblance to a figure in a Botticelli fresco. Not only are there frequent references to specific works of art, but certain characters are also evoked by comparison to particular paintings.
Blattin becomes the subject of Proustian mischief by being described as "exactly the portrait of Savonarola by Fra Bartolomeo." Eric Karpeles has identified and located the many paintings to which Proust makes reference and sets them alongside the relevant text from the novel; in other cases, where only a painter's name is mentioned to indicate a certain style or appearance, Karpeles has chosen a representative Even the lesser figure of a certain Mme.
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