The image of Venice
Subtitle: Fialetti's view and Sir Henry Wotton
By: Deborah Howard and Henrietta McBurney ; with contributions by Christy Anderson [and others]
Contributors: McBurney, Henrietta; Anderson, Christy
Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781907372483
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: In art; History; Criticism and interpretation; Art patronage
Other titles: Fialetti's view and Sir Henry Wotton
Description: "The city of Venice holds a special place in the global imagination. This book explores the creation of one of its largest surviving depictions, which has remained almost unknown to the wider public since its creation exactly four centuries ago. Signed and dated 1611, the painting is the work of a notable early seventeenth-century Bolognese artist, Odoardo Fialetti. His huge bird's-eye view of the watery townscape is enlivened by first-hand observation of tiny vignettes of Venetian life. Eight square metres in size, this remarkable painting is a tour-de-force among depictions of cities. In 1636 the painting was donated to Eton College by the former British ambassador to Venice, Sir Henry Wotton. This beautiful commemorative volume takes a closer look at the picture's remarkable history, set in the context of the rich history of views of Venice from Gentile Bellini to Canaletto."--Front inside flap of dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing Fialetti's view of Venice  -- Deborah Howard and -- Henrietta McBurney; title: Venice: reality and representation  -- Deborah Howard; title: The image of Venice in the sixteenth century  -- Allison Sherman; title: Odoardo Fialetti: painter and printmaker  -- Laura Walters; title: Odoardo Fialetti's View of Venice restored  -- Ruth Bubb; title: Sights and sighs in the Serenissima: built architecture and its depiction  -- Andrew Hopkins; title: Sir Henry Wotton: collector and patron  -- Henrietta McBurney; title: Lying abroad for the good of his country: Sir Henry Wotton and Venice in the age of the interdict  -- Daniel McReynolds; title: The learned art of architecture: Henry Wotton's Elements of Architecture (1624)  -- Christy Anderson; title: "The wonderful picture of a city that seems to float": Sir Henry Wotton's gift to Eton of Fialetti's View of Venice  -- Henrietta McBurney; title: Technical appendix -- Ruth Bubb.