Casanova Seduction Europe, First Edition (5 results)

First Edition. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. Physical description; 343 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits ; 26 cm. Subjects; Casanova, Giacomo 1725-1798 ; Exhibitions. Casanova, Giacomo 1725-1798 In art ; Exhibitions. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; Exhibitions. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 21st century ; Exhibitions. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Stiff square unmarked book in crisp dust jacket; about new. ; 10.0 X 7.7 X 1.4 inches; 344 pages.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. Physical description; 343 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits ; 26 cm. Subjects; Casanova, Giacomo 1725-1798 ; Exhibitions. Casanova, Giacomo 1725-1798 In art ; Exhibitions. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; Exhibitions. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 21st century ; Exhibitions. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 343 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), map, portraits, photographs; 26 cm. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, August 27 to December 31, 2017; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, February 10 to May 28, 2018; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 1 to October 8, 2018. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "In 18th-century Europe, while the old order reveled in the luxurious excesses of the Rococo style and the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of revolution, the shapeshifting libertine Giacomo Casanova seduced his way across the continent. Although notorious for the scores of amorous conquests he recorded in his remarkably frank memoirs, Casanova was just as practiced at charming his way into the most elite social circles, through an inimitable mix of literary ambition, improvisational genius and outright fraud. In his travels across Europe and through every level of society from the theatrical demimonde to royal courts, he was also seduced by the visual splendors he encountered. This volume accompanies the first major art exhibition outside Europe to lavishly recreate Casanova's visual world, from his birthplace of Venice, city of masquerades, to the cultural capitals of Paris and London and the outposts of Eastern Europe. It provides a survey of important works of 18th-century European art by masters such as Canaletto, Fragonard, Boucher, Houdon and Hogarth, along with exquisite decorative arts objects." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Directors' foreword; Preface; The art of display, by C. D. Dickerson III; Venice, by Frederick Ilchman; The theater of identity, by James H. Johnson; Pleasures of the road, by Jeffrey Collins; Paris, by Esther Bell; Amorous pursuits, by Susan M. Wager; Clothes make the man, by Pamela A. Parmal; London, by Thomas Michie; Champagne and oysters, by Meredith Chilton; Dresden to Duchcov, by Michael Yonan; Man of numbers, by Nina L. Dubin; Man of letters, by Malina Stefanovska; Map. Casanova's Europe; Chronology, by Courtney Leigh Harris; Notes; Select bibliography; List of illustrations; Appendix. Additional exhibited objects; Lenders to the exhibition; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. 343 + (1)pp. 136 illustrations in colour, listed at pp 300-317, double-page map of Casanova s travels. Publisher s pictorial boards, within dust wrapper. Scholarly catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2018; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 2017; Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco 2018. In very good condition.