Townscape painting and drawing
1972, First Edition. London : Batsford. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Faint foxing to edges and prelims. Remains well-preserved overall; internally strong and clean. Item #477174
ISBN: 0713407263
Physical description; xviii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Topography and art – How dark an age? – A little light – Ambrogio Lorenzetti – The first topographical painting – English illuminators – The Duke of Berry's influence – Jean Fouquet – Robert Campin – Jan van Eyck – Roger van der Weyden – Quattrocento Italy – The thrill of perspective – Ideal perspective – Intarsia – Mantua – The first Venice view-paintings – The first travel books – Maps and bird's-eye views – Jacopo de' Barbari – Dürer in Venice – The dawn of the Sixteenth Century – De' Barbari's late followers – El Greco – The distant view – The London panoramas – Wenceslas Hollar – The street as a subject – The first Dutch townscape painting – Jan Vermeer – The first townscape painter – The townscape school – The beginning of Italian view-painting – Canaletto's forerunners – Giovanni Antonio Canal – The other Vedutisti – Giovanni Battista Piranesi – Topographical art in England – Canaletto in England – Canaletto goes home – Bellotto. Subjects; Cities and towns in art. Painting, European – 15th-18th centuries. Drawing, European – 15th-18th centuries. Landscape painting – History.
Price: €30.00