Canaletto and his patrons

Links, J.G.

Elek

Canaletto and His Patrons

Arts & Photography

Hacker Art Books

Canaletto

This is the catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from October 30, 1989 to January 21, 1990. It contains 127 plates of Canaletto's artwork, almost all in color, as well as an appendix that contains 5 documents in the artist's handwriting. Also included is an essay by the foremost expert on Canaletto, J. G. Links, who helped organize this exhibition, entitled "Canaletto: A Biographical Sketch". Four other essays, "Canaletto as Artist of the Urban Scene" by Michael Levey; "The Taste for Canaletto" by Francis Haskell; "Fantasy and Reality in Canaletto's Drawings" by Alessandro Bettagno; and, "The Development of Canaletto's Painting Technique" by Viola Pemberton-Pigott, all add insight into this great master and his art. First Edition 1989, Catalog for the 1989 Canaletto Exhibition by the NY Metropolitan Museum. Published by Metropolitan Museum, Large Format Softcover 587 pages. With many spectacular drawings, and full page, full color photos.

BAETJER, Katharine

Individual Artists

Metropolitan Museum of Art

None of Venice's innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissima's character with quite such a combination of the scholarly, the informal and the intimate...Over the years thousands of readers, starting this book, have been relieved to encounter its famously undemanding approach to the city - "Generally the first thing to do in Venice is to sit down and have some coffee": but by the time they get to the end of it, all the same, they will have learnt virtually everything that an educated stranger needs to know about the place, its art and its history, besides being subtly entertained throughout.From Jan Morris's introduction

Venice for pleasure

Travel

Europe

Bodley Head

Possibly the most famous, and certainly the best-loved guide ever written on Venice. Now in its 6th fully revised edition, with extensive color, this guides simple object is to guide the reader to places he might otherwise miss and, having reached them, tell him what he might wish to know and then leave him, preferably at a cafe, to admire and enjoy. Over 110,000 copies sold. This magic book...not only the best guide-book to that city ever written, but the best guide-book to any city ever written.

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

253p hardback, dustjacket (transparent film), 50 plates, maps, index, sources & bibliography, very good, from a Cambridge school library

Travellers in Europe: Private records of journeys by the great and the forgotten, from Horace to Pepys

Literature & Fiction

Venice for Pleasure

Norton

<p>1972, hardcover edition, Batsford, London, U.K., 261 pages. Here is a title that discusses the art of the townscape as it developed over 300 years. Wonderful b&w vintage illustrations throughout, 193 total. Really well done, a delightful title.</p>

Townscape painting and drawing,

Harper&Row

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