Painting in eighteenth-century Venice
By: Michael Levey.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Painting, Italian -- Italy -- Venice -- 18th century.
Description: "From Canaletto to Tiepolo, eighteenth-century Venetian painters created brilliant works of art that are now considered to be the last flowering of the long Venetian tradition of painting. This beautiful book provides an introduction to eighteenth-century Venetian painting, discussing the various types of painting - portraiture, genre, landscape, history paintings and religious works - as well as the society, patronage and intellectual climate of Venice at this time."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-260) and index.