Venice in the age of Canaletto
By: [editors, Alexandra Libby, Marina Pacini, and Stanton Thomas]
Contributors: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Publisher: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Distributed worldwide by Prestel
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Memphis, Tenn.]; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9783791380001
Subjects: In art; Italian Landscape painting; Italian Art; Exhibitions; Landscape painting; Civilization
Description: "Canaletto's landscapes are arguably, even today, the most familiar artistic products of eighteenth-century Venice  For those with the requisite means, no visit to the city would be considered complete without the purchase of at least one of the artist's views, which captured the city's topography and urban activity with apparent verisimilitude. ... View painting, not a favored genre during the preceding several centuries, gained considerable popularity in the 1700s.  Its ascendency corresponded directly to increased foreign travel and in particular to the aristocratic Englishmen who, having embarked on the Grand Tour - an itinerary which necessarily included Venice - sought mementos of their travels.  ... However, for all Canaletto's popularity and his ability to capture the fabric of Venice at its most appealing and evocative, his work is curiously devoid of the rich coloring, sensuality, and exuberance of most Venetian art of the period.  To help elucidate the complicated forces that shaped Canaletto and the city of Venice during his age, this catalogue offers a range of essays."--preface.
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition held at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Oct. 8, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010; and at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Feb. 14-May 9, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-168).
Table of contents: title: Canaletto: a brief biography / Alexandra Libby; title: George Proctor: merchant, then gentleman, and the English taste for Canaletto / Stanton Thomas; title: An armchair on the Grand Canal: the Prospectus Magni Canalis Venetiarum of 1735 / Eugene J. Johnson and Leslie N. Johnson; title: Private images for public spaces: religious art in eighteenth-century Venice / William Barcham; title: Ludovico Ughi map; title: Catalogue.; title: Artists: Bernardo Bellotto; title: Giuseppe Briati; title: Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal); title: Luca Carlevaris; title: Factory of Geminiano Cozzi; title: Giovanni Giuliani; title: Francesco Guardi; title: Pietro Longhi; title: Domenico Maggiotto; title: Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini; title: Style of Michelangelo Pergolesi; title: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta; title: Follower of Marco Ricci; title: Sebastiano Ricci; title: Giambattista Tiepolo; title: Venetian workshop; title: Vezzi Factory; title: Antonio Visentini