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Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (A ^APublication of the National Gallery of Art, Washington) - Hardcover

De Grazia, Diane; Garberson, Eric

 
9780894682162: Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (A ^APublication of the National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Synopsis

Some of the most important Italian baroque paintings in America are included here: major works by Anton Maria Vassallo, Bernardo Strozzi, Donato Creti, Sebastiano Ricci, and Giambattista Tiepolo; a number of view paintings by the popular eighteenth-century Venetian artists Canaletto, Bellotto, and Guardi; and the only landscape by Annibale Carracci in the United States. Among the sixty-nine works presented are Orazio Gentileschi's Lute Player, considered his masterpiece; Jusepe de Ribera's Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew; and one of Bernardo Bellotto's largest and best paintings, The Fortress of K¨nigstein.

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About the Author

Mitchell Merling is curator of European art, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal/The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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