Venice Through Canaletto's Eyes
Venice Through Canaletto's Eyes

Author: David Bomford

Publisher: National Gallery Publications Limited

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9780300076967

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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.

Venice and the Cultural Imagination
Venice and the Cultural Imagination

Author: Michael O'Neill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1317322592

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In the era of the Grand Tour, Venice was the cultural jewel in the crown of Europe and the epitome of decadence. This edited collection of eleven essays draws on a range of disciplines and approaches to ask how Venice’s appeal has affected Western culture since 1800.

Venice in the Age of Canaletto
Venice in the Age of Canaletto

Author: Alexandra Libby

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13:

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"This exhibition catalogue considers the cultural context of the artist's development as a redute, or view painter. Essays by William Barcham, Eugene J. and Leslie Nichols Johnson, Alexandra Libby, and Stanton Thomas provide a context for the catalogue entries on the genre pictures, landscapes, religious paintings, and the decorative arts made by Canaletto and his contemporaries. The result is a unique and multi-faceted portrait of a city at a critical moment in the history of art. A collaborative effort of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and The John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, Venice in the Age of Canaletto offers a fascinating look at sumptuous paintings, prints, and decorative arts from the famed floating city." --Book Jacket.

Canaletto in Venice
Canaletto in Venice

Author: Martin Clayton

Publisher: Royal Collection Trust

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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This book explores Venice as it was and Canaletto' s interpretation of it, as he created what have become the archetypal images of the most beautiful city in the world.

The Venice Myth
The Venice Myth

Author: David Barnes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1317317505

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Venice holds a unique place in literary and cultural history. Barnes looks at the themes of war, occupation, resistance and fascism to see how the political background has affected the literary works that have come out of this great city. He focuses on key British and American writers, including Byron, Ruskin, Pound and Eliot.

Painting in Eighteenth-century Venice
Painting in Eighteenth-century Venice

Author: Michael Levey

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780300060577

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From Canaletto to Tiepolo, eighteenth century Venetian painters created brilliant works of art that are now considered to be the last flowering of the long Venetian tradition of painting. This beautiful book provides an introduction to eighteenth century Venetian painting, discussing the various types of painting--portraiture, genre, landscape, history paintings and religious works--as well as the society, patronage and intellectual climate of Venice at this time.

Monographic Exhibitions and the History of Art
Monographic Exhibitions and the History of Art

Author: Maia Wellington Gahtan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 135177820X

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This edited collection traces the impact of monographic exhibitions on the discipline of art history from the first examples in the late eighteenth century through the present. Roughly falling into three genres (retrospectives of living artists, retrospectives of recently deceased artists, and monographic exhibitions of Old Masters), specialists examine examples of each genre within their social, cultural, political, and economic contexts. Exhbitions covered include Nathaniel Hone’s 1775 exhibition, the Holbein Exhibition of 1871, the Courbet retrospective of 1882, Titian's exhibition in Venice, Poussin's Louvre retrospective of 1960, and El Greco's anniversaty exhibitions of 2014.

Tropic of Venice
Tropic of Venice

Author: Margaret Doody

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2007-02

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780812239843

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In this journey through the work of artists and the writings of travelers who have been both smitten and repelled by the influence of Venice, Margaret Doody explores ways in which this is a city profoundly unlike any other on earth—and one that simultaneously unsettles and reveals many of our most deeply rooted cultural values.