num_pages: 392
description: Some of the most important Italian baroque paintings in America are included 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, TheFortress of K"nigstein .
language: English
title: Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
titlecomplete: Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogues)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Princeton University Press