Author: CanalettoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Two Views of Venice
Author: CanalettoViews of Venice
Author: CanalettoPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486227057
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Famous series of paintings reproduced in contemporary engravings by Visentini. Wonderful view of 18th-century Venice; thorough text by J. Links. 50 illustrations.
Canaletto and the Art of Venice
Author: Rosie RazzallPublisher: Royal Collection Editions
ISBN: 9781909741409
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Royal Collection has one of the largest and finest collections of Venetian art from the first half of the eighteenth century. It includes paintings, prints and drawings by Canaletto himself, as well as those of his contemporaries, such as Sebastiano and Marco Ricci, Antonio Visentini, Francesco Zuccarelli and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. These artists were patronised by Consul Smith and their works were later purchased by George III. This lavishly illustrated catalogue marks the first time that the rich holdings of eighteenth-century Venetian art in the Royal Collection will have been brought together, and focuses on presenting these extraordinary works against the background of the social and artistic networks of the period. Whilst displaying and analysing the brilliant works of Canaletto himself, including his cityscapes, capriccios and paintings of architecture, this catalogue also discusses the intimate interior of Venetian life, explores the links between artists and the theatre in Venice at this time and looks at Venice as a centre for printmaking and book production.
The Venice Variations
Author: Sophia PsarraPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787352390
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.
Albrecht Dürer and the Venetian Renaissance
Author: Katherine Crawford LuberPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521562881
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
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Venice
Author: Charles BeddingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
View-painting in eighteenth-century Venice began with the emergence of Luca Carlevarijs and ended with the death of Francesco Guardi in 1793. This title presents an overview of the artists then working in the city, and draws on the latest research and scholarship to illuminate the complex stylistic relationships between them.
Summary of and Index to Waagen
Author: Algernon GravesSargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass
Author: Sheldon BarrPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691222673
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Murano Glass and its Collectors in Aesthetic America / Melody Barnett Deusner -- Venetian Mosaics and Glass in the United States, 1860-1917 / Sheldon Barr -- "Where Have Titian's Beauties Gone?" : Sargent and Whistler on the Streets of Venice / Stephanie Mayer Heydt -- Interweaving Worlds : Antique and Revival Lace in Italy and in the United States, 1872-1927 / Diana Jocelyn Greenwold -- Sparks of Genius : American Art and the Appeal of Modern Venetian Glass / Crawford Alexander Mann III -- Biographies / Brittany Emens Strupp, Crawford Alexander Mann III.
Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen
Author: John Preston NealePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Author: Michael Bryan