Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe - Couverture rigide

Kerber, Peter Bjorn

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1606065254 ISBN 13 : 9781606065259

Editeur : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2017

Synopsis

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.

This vital book represents a major contribution to the field of view painting studies and will be an essential resource for scholars and enthusiasts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Björn Kerber is assistant curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1606065254
• ISBN 13: 9781606065259
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible