Charles Jervas 心地よい空間へ
感性、 ではない
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ムードを選ぶだけで、空間がそれに応えます。光は冷たさや温もりを帯び、空気の流れが変わり、その感情を宿した作品だけが暗闇の中から浮かび上がります。それ以外のすべては、影の中へと退いていくのです。
Charles Jervas
early life and training charles jervas, an irish portrait painter, translator, and art collector, was born in clonlisk, county offaly, ireland around 1675. he was the son of john jervas and elizabeth, daughter of captain john baldwin of shinrone castle & corolanty, high sheriff of county offaly. jervas studied in london, england as an assistant under sir godfrey kneller between 1694 and 1695. rise to prominence after selling a series of
small copies of the raphael cartoons circa 1698 to dr. george clarke of all souls college, oxford, jervas travelled to paris and rome (financially supported by clarke and others) remaining there for most of the decade before returning to london in 1709. there, he found success as a portrait painter, capturing the likenesses of the city's intellectuals, including personal friends jonathan swift and alexander pope (now in the national p…
