Around Italy in three centuries of fine art, the catalogue for the exhibition which took place at the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), 28 March - 16 June 2002, & the Melbourne Museum, 7 July - 5 October 2002.
This book is a fully illustrated view of 300 years of Italian art covering the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which saw painting and sculpture that has influenced art history for generations. The 1500s saw the era of the Renaissance masters - da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo, as well as the mannerist style, del Sarto and Pontormo, and painters from the Venetian school including Giorgione, Titian, and Lotto. The northern artistic schools started in the 1600s, led by Carracci, Reni, Guercino, and Domenichino.
Included here are works by Caravaggio. Papal Rome is represented by Bernini and Pietro da Cortona. The 1700s feature landscape artists including Canaletto, Bellotto, and Guardi, and from the Rococò period, Tiepolo and Gandolfi with sculptures by Canova and Giani.
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Paperback, excellent condition.
Published by Artificio Skira, 2002. First edition.
ISBN: 8884912660