Paintings in Venice / Augusto Gentili [and others]

Gentili, Augusto

2002, First Edition. Boston : Bulfinch Press. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #348075
ISBN: 0821228137

Physical description; 607 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-598) and indexes. Contents; Introduction ; Venetian painting in the fourteenth century ; Venetian painting in the early fifteenth century ; Venetian painting in the fifteenth century before Giovanni Bellini ; Italian paiinting in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Giovanna Nepi Sciré -- Giovanni Bellini : the altarpieces ; Giovan Battista Cima da Conegliano ; Gentile Bellini, Vittore Carpaccio, and the Stories of the Relic of the Cross ; Vittore Carpaccio : Ladies and the stories of Saint Ursula ; Vittore Carpaccio in the Scuola Dalmata dei Santi Giorgio e Trifone ; Altarpieces by Carpaccio ; Giorgione ; Sebastiano Luciani, alias Sebastiano Veneziano, alias Sebastiano del Piombo ; "Ponentine" artists int he fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ; Venetian, Veneto, and Lombard artists of the early sixteenth century ; Titian, 1505-1540 ; Lorenzo Lotto in Venice ; Mannerism in Venetian painting, circa 1520-1560 -- Titian, 1540-1576 ; Jacopo Tintoretto ; Jacopo Bassano ; Paolo Veronese ; Jacopo Palma Giovane ; Tiintoretto, Veronese, and Palma Giovane at the Doge's palace / Augusta Gentili -- The seventeenth century, the eighteenth century, the nineteenth century : the turn of two centuries ; Foreign artists and new trends ; Beyond the Tenebrists -- Chiarismo and Baroque ; Sebastiano Ricci and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta ; European Rococo -- Pellegrini, Carriera, Antonio Guardi, and Amigoni ; Giambattista Tiepolo ; Landscape and Vedutismo -- Canaletto, Bellotto, Zuccarelli, and Zais ; Conversation pieces -- Pietro Longhi ; Francesco Guardi -- lyricism and drama -- Giandomenico Tiepolo ; Neoclassicism, the dawn of Romanticism, and Verismo / Giandomenico Romanelli -- Twentieth-century paintings in public collections / Philip Rylands -- Biographies of the artists. Subjects; Painting. Museum. Painting Italy Venice. Painting, Italian Italy Venice. Italy Venice. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.

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