Venice Through Canaletto's Eyes - Brossura

Bomford, David; Finaldi, Gabriele

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0300076967 ISBN 13: 9780300076967

Casa editrice: Natl Gallery Pubns Ltd, 1998

Riassunto

Through a group of masterpieces in the National Gallery Collection, which spans the artist's working life, and clusters of works relating to them, this book explores Canaletto's painting technique - the shorthand he developed for architectural detail and for figures, the way the skies and water are painted - and the larger question of his treatment of the topography of his native city.
This selection of pictures - including contemporary maps and photographs of modern Venice, as well as sketchbooks, large detailed drawings, paintings and prints - takes the reader on a journey through Canaletto's Venice, along the Grand Canal from S. Simeone Piccolo and the upper reaches, past the Scuola di San Rocco to Palazzo Foscari and the Volta del Canal, on to the Carita and ending in St Mark's Square.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Gabriele Finaldi is Curator of Later Italian and Spanish Painting at the National Gallery.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Natl Gallery Pubns Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0300076967
• ISBN 13: 9780300076967
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 64