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Eyewitness Views

Eyewitness Views

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This vital book represents a major contribution to the field of view painting studies and will be an essential resource for scholars and enthusiasts. Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Carlevarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert--these renowned view painters are perhaps most famous for their expansive canvases depicting the ruins of Rome or the canals of Venice. Many of their most splendid paintings, however, feature important contemporary events. These occasions motivated some of the greatest artists of the era to produce their most exceptional work. Little explored by scholars, these paintings stand out by virtue of their extraordinary artistic quality, vibrant atmosphere, and historical interest. They are imbued with a sense of occasion, even drama, and were often commissioned by or for rulers, princes, and ambassadors as records of significant events in which they participated.

Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, this volume provides the first-ever comprehensive study--in any language--of this type of view painting. In examining these paintings alongside the historical events depicted in them, Peter Björn Kerber carefully reconstructs the meaning and context these paintings possessed for the artists who produced them and the patrons who commissioned them, as well as for their contemporary viewers.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
252
Release Date:
2017-04-28
Publication Date:
2017-05-09
Publisher:
Getty Publications
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1606065254
ISBN13:
9781606065259
Weight:
1757 g
Height:
261 cm
Width:
287 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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