Canaletto
by Baetjer, Katherine and J.G. Links
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG (Former owner's name in ink on front endpaper, note in pencil on first page)
- ISBN 10
- 0810931559
- ISBN 13
- 9780810931558
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. Hardcover. VG (Former owner's name in ink on front endpaper, note in pencil on first page). Blue cloth over boards; Color illus. dj.; Clear plastic covering added over dj.; 387 pp.; 180 plates and figures, 167 color, 13 bw. Includes essays by J.G. Links, Michael Levy, Francis Haskell, Alessandro Bettagno, and Viola Pemberton-Pigott; Accompanied the exhibition (made possible by Louis Vuitton) held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from October 30, 1989 - January 21, 1990. Contents as follows: Canaletto : a biographical sketch / J.G. Links -- Canaletto as artist of the urban scene / Michael Levey -- The taste for Canaletto / Francis Haskell -- Fantasy and reality in Canaletto's drawings / Alessandro Bettagno -- The development of Canaletto's painting technique / Viola Pemberton-Pigott. Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), the painter extraordinaire of Venice who was known as Canaletto, is the subject of this exhibition catalog from a recent show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It brings together a wealth of paintings and drawings avidly collected in his day by the English aristocracy and, especially with regard to those assembled from the Royal Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, generally unseen before in this country.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 116550
- Title
- Canaletto
- Author
- Baetjer, Katherine and J.G. Links
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG (Former owner's name in ink on front endpaper, note in pencil on first page)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0810931559
- ISBN 13
- 9780810931558
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- European Artists ; Canaletto ; ;
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