The eighteenth century in Italy
By: [catalogue by] Jacob Bean [and] Felice Stampfle.
Contributors: Stampfle, Felice, joint author.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Pierpont Morgan Library.
Series: Drawings from New York collections,; 3
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art [and] Pierpont Morgan Library; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
Subjects: Drawing, Italian -- 18th century -- Exhibitions; Drawing -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "This is the third in a series of catalogues published jointly by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Pierpont Morgan Library to record exhibitions of drawings from the two institutions and from distinguished private collections. The exhibitions and the books that illustrate them will ultimately document the finest traditions of European draughtsmanship, from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. The Eighteenth Century in Italy, which follows The Italian Renaissance and The Seventeenth Century in Italy, contains reproductions of 300 drawings, presented one to a page. The book brings together, chronologically, brilliant works by G. B. Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and Domenico Tiepolo—as well as drawings of fifty-one other masters of the Settecento. As in the preceding catalogues, the photographic reproductions have been made directly from the drawings themselves in order to retain, as much as possible, the original tonalities. Each of the 300 drawings has a commentary, record of provenance and exhibitions, technical description, and bibliography. And, for the first time in the series, many watermarks have been drawn and reproduced photographically"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 16-17.
"Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 30-March 21, 1971."