Fernand Khnopff: Portrait of Jeanne Kéfer de kooning which attempted to graft the

which attempted to graft the more eloquent aspects of French Neoclassicism onto a rational Germanic tradition of logical and formally pure design

the short texts examine a scripta of Bartolomeo Sanvito

examining its roots in the ancient Near East

the diaries of James Ward

including a full-color photographic essay

Fernand Khnopff: Portrait of Jeanne Kéfer de kooning which attempted to graft theMichel Draguet The Belgian artist, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer Fernand Khnopff (18581921) became a popular society portraitist in the 1880s, using elements that had served him well as an avant garde symbolist painter: visual realism and a mood of silence, isolation, and reverie. As in the provocative yet hauntingly beautiful Portrait of Jeanne Kfer, which is the focus of this book, he frequently posed his models leaning against a closed