Martin Gayford: Venice, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Venice
- City of Pictures
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
- Verlag:
- Thames & Hudson, 07/2025
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780500298756
- Artikelnummer:
- 12069620
- Umfang:
- 464 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 939 g
- Maße:
- 229 x 145 mm
- Stärke:
- 36 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 8.7.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
Venice was a major center of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm. The achievements of the Bellini brothers, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese are a key part of this story. No other city has been depicted by so many great painters in such diverse styles and moods. Venetian views were a specialty of native artists such as Canaletto and Guardi, but the city has also been represented by outsiders: J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent, Howard Hodgkin, and many more.
Then there are those who came to look at and write about art. The reactions of Henry James, George Eliot, Richard Wagner, and others enrich this tale. Nor is the story over. Since the advent of the Venice Biennale in the 1890s, and the arrival of pioneering modern-art collector Peggy Guggenheim in the late 1940s, the city has become a shop window for the contemporary art of the whole world, and it remains the site of important artistic events.
In this elegant volume, Gayford--who has visited Venice countless times since the 1970s, covered every Biennale since 1990, and even had portraits of himself exhibited there on several occasions--takes us on a visual journey through the past five centuries of the city known as "La Serenissima," the Most Serene. It is a unique and compelling portrait of Venice that will delight lovers of the city and lovers of its art.
Biografie
Der Brite Martin Gayford hat wichtige Studien über Constable, van Gogh und Gauguin veröffentlicht und 2009 die Constable-Ausstellung in der Londoner National Portrait Gallery ausgerichtet. Er schreibt für zahlreiche Zeitungen und Zeitschriften. Im deutschen Sprachraum ist der in Cambridge lebende Autor noch weitgehend unbekannt.