Castrovalva (M. C. Escher)
- Castrovalva (M. C. Escher)
Artwork
title=Castrovalva
artist=M. C. Escher
year=1930
type=Lithograph
height=53
width=42.1
"Castrovalva" is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which was first printed in February, 1930. Like many of Escher's early works, it depicts a place that he visited on a tour of Italy.
It depicts the Abruzzi village of Castrovalva, which lies at the top of a sheer slope. The perspective is toward the northwest, from the narrow trail on the left which, at the point from which this view is seen, makes a hairpin turn to the right, descending to the valley. In the foreground at the side of the trail, there are several flowering plants, grasses, ferns, a beetle and a snail. In the expansive valley below there are cultivated fields and two more towns, the nearest of which is "Anversa degli Abruzzi", with "Casale" in the distance.
Other uses
*In 1982 the name "Castrovalva" was used in a story in the BBC television series "Doctor Who". The storyline also relied heavily on recursion, a favorite theme in Escher's later and more famous works, and used ideas taken from "Belvedere", "Ascending and Descending", and "Relativity" to trap the protagonists in the city of Castrovalva.
*The comic "Kingdom of the Wicked" is set in an imaginary world named Castrovalva.
ee also
*Printmaking
External links
* [http://www.phy.bg.ac.yu/web_projects/escher/Castrovalva.jpgThe lithograph]
ources
*Locher, J.L. (2000). "The Magic of M. C. Escher". Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-6720-0.
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