Автор: Lionello Puppi
Название: The Complete paintings of Canaletto
Издательство: Henry N. Abrams
Год: 1968
ISBN: 978-0810955042
Серия: Classics of the World's Great Art
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 30,5 mb
Страниц: 128

It is thanks to Canaletto, the painter of views, that today we can know and enjoy what many eighteenth-century European cities looked like. His control of optical principles gives a panoramic completeness to each scene; his meticulous and sensitive touch preserves the atmosphere, the skyline, the very look of each place. Although the demand put upon him during the peak of his popularity may have affected the quality of some of his work, Canaletto remains the finest exponent of vedute, paintings of views, one of the great trends of eighteenth-century art.

This volume is invaluable both for its catalogue, which describes the whole of Canaletto’s vast output, and for its discussion of the history of the painting of vedute, its techniques and its optical devices.