by Robert Cumming · Livraria Civilização Editora · tapa dura · ISBN 9789895505869
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«Comentar os grandes artistas» is Robert Cumming's art guide, published by Livraria Civilização Editora in hardback (112 pages, in Portuguese).
Analyses the lives and work of 50 fundamental painters, from the 15th to the 20th century, through annotated reproductions of their paintings. Each entry examines the artist's style, technique, preferred themes, and biographical and historical context; notes on the images reveal hidden symbols and distinctive features.
The original work, «Great Artists: The Lives of 50 Painters Explored Through Their Work», was published in English in 1998; this Portuguese edition is from 2007.
For art students, enthusiasts of painting history, and readers who want to understand the visual keys of the great masters.
Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings was an American film and television actor who appeared in roles in comedy films such as The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and Princess O'Rourke (1943), and in dramatic films, especially two of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, Saboteur (1942) and Dial M for Murder (1954). He received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Single Performance in 1955. On February 8, 1960, he received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture and television industries, at 6816 Hollywood Boulevard and 1718 Vine Street. He used the stage name Robert Cummings from mid-1935 until the end of 1954 and was credited as Bob Cummings from 1955 until his death.
