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Venice in the age of Canaletto

Libby, Alexandra, Pacini, Marina, Thomas, Stanton, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

2009

Overview

\"Canaletto's landscapes are arguably, even today, the most familiar artistic products of eighteenth-century Venice For those with the requisite means, no visit to the city would be considered complete without the purchase of at least one of the artist's views, which captured the city's topography and urban activity with apparent verisimilitude. ... View painting, not a favored genre during the preceding several centuries, gained considerable popularity in the 1700s. Its ascendency corresponded directly to increased foreign travel and in particular to the aristocratic Englishmen who, having embarked on the Grand Tour - an itinerary which necessarily included Venice - sought mementos of their travels. ... However, for all Canaletto's popularity and his ability to capture the fabric of Venice at its most appealing and evocative, his work is curiously devoid of the rich coloring, sensuality, and exuberance of most Venetian art of the period. To help elucidate the complicated forces that shaped Canaletto and the city of Venice during his age, this catalogue offers a range of essays.\"--preface.

• Publisher: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art ; Distributed worldwide by Prestel
• Subject: Canaletto, 1697-1768 Exhibitions. / Art, Italian Italy Venice 18th century Exhibitions. / Landscape painting Italy Venice 18th century Exhibitions. / Landscape painting, Italian 18th century Exhibitions. / Venice (Italy) Civilization 18th century Exhibitions. / Venice (Italy) In art Exhibitions.
• ISBN: 9783791380001, 3791380001

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N6921.V5 V43 2009	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE