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Painting in Eighteenth-Century Venice (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) - Softcover

Levey, Sir Michael

 
9780300060577: Painting in Eighteenth-Century Venice (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)

Synopsis

From Canaletto to Tiepolo, eighteenth-century Venetian painters created brilliant works of art that are now considered to be the last flowering of the long Venetian tradition of painting. This beautiful book provides an introduction to eighteenth-century Venetian painting, discussing the various types of painting - portraiture, genre, landscape, history paintings and religious works - as well as the society, patronage and intellectual climate of Venice at this time.

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About the Author

Sir Michael Levey has been Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge and is Slade Professor at the University of Oxford (1994-5).

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