The glory of Venice: ten centuries of imagination and invention / [text by] Daniel Huguenin; [photographs by] Erich Lessing
1993, English Edition. Paris: Pierre Terrail. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #346950
ISBN: 2879390966
Physical description: 207 pages: illustrations (chiefly colour); 30cm. Contents:
Overture -- Venice Triumphant -- Titian, Aretino, Sansovino -- Painting for Eternity -- Mosaics -- Sailors and Merchants -- Constantinople, Marco Polo, The Arsenal -- Into the Renaissance -- Bellini and Carpaccio -- Love and Poetry -- Giorgione -- A Child of Venice -- Tintoretto -- From the Redentore to the Salute -- Palladio and Longhena -- The Marriage at Cana -- Veronese -- Reflections of Venice -- Canaletto, Guardi, Canova, and Others -- Venice After Venice -- Further Reading. Subjects: Art, Italian Italy Venice Themes, motives.
Art, Italian Themes, motives. Italy Venice.
Price: €18.00