Автор: Lionello Puppi Название: The Complete paintings of Canaletto Издательство: Henry N. Abrams Год: 1968 ISBN: 978-0810955042 Серия: Classics of the World's Great Art Язык: English Формат: pdf Размер: 30,5 mb Страниц: 128
It is thanks to Canaletto, the painter of views, that today we can know and enjoy what many eighteenth-century European cities looked like. His control of optical principles gives a panoramic completeness to each scene; his meticulous and sensitive touch preserves the atmosphere, the skyline, the very look of each place. Although the demand put upon him during the peak of his popularity may have affected the quality of some of his work, Canaletto remains the finest exponent of vedute, paintings of views, one of the great trends of eighteenth-century art.
This volume is invaluable both for its catalogue, which describes the whole of Canaletto’s vast output, and for its discussion of the history of the painting of vedute, its techniques and its optical devices.
Introduction 5 An outline of the artist's critical history 8 The paintings in colour 15 List of plates 16 Bibliography 82 Outline biography 83 Catalogue of works 86 Other works attributed to Canaletto 123 Subjects and titles 124 Topographical index 125
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