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.

The Bodley Head

Venice for Pleasure

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

<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

In this reissue of the second revised edition published in 1994, the author's study of the artist has become well known. Admired for its comprehensive, meticulous scholarship and for its combination of lucidity and elegance. Fully illustrated in colour and black and white.

Phaidon

<p>Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), known as Canaletto, is one of the most popular of all old master painters. His views of Venice and London are much celebrated and admired. First published in 1982, this revised book traces Canaletto's career from his beginnings as a scene-painter with his father to the work of his later years in artists. Canaletto was interested in depicting the world around him, but unlike most of his fellow artists, but he was more than a mere recorder of the amazing scenery of Venice or of Georgian England. He had the power, in the words of one of his contemporaries, to paint so that "the eye is deceived and truly believes it is the real thing it sees", and his insight and technical skills were so dazzling that it was thought he must rely on some sort of optical apparatus. His first views of Venice were painted around 1725 for Stefano Conti of Lucca. Soon after he came into contact with Joseph Smith, British Consul in Venice, who was to become his most important patron. Through Smith's influence, he came to England between about 1746 and 1756 during which time he painted many London scenes including views of Westminster Bridge, Whitehall, the Old Horse Guards, St James's Park and Somerset House as well as views of Warwick Castle and Eton College. These and many others of Canaletto's best paintings and watercolours are reproduced in the book's much expanded range of colour illustrations.</p>

Phaidon Inc Ltd

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Canaletto and his patrons

Canaletto and His Patrons

Canaletto

Venice for pleasure

Venice for pleasure

Venice for Pleasure

Venice for Pleasure

Townscape painting and drawing,

Canaletto

Canaletto