The image of Venice : Fialetti's view and Sir Henry Wotton / Deborah Howard and Henrietta McBurney ; with contributions by Christy Anderson [and others]
2014, First Edition. London : Paul Holberton Publishing. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #347184
ISBN: 9781907372483
Physical description; 171 pages : illustrations (black and white and color), maps, portraits ; 27 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index. Contents; Introducing Fialetti's view of Venice / Deborah Howard and Henrietta McBurney -- Venice: reality and representation / Deborah Howard -- The image of Venice in the sixteenth century / Allison Sherman -- Odoardo Fialetti: painter and printmaker / Laura Walters -- Odoardo Fialetti's View of Venice restored / Ruth Bubb -- Sights and sighs in the Serenissima: built architecture and its depiction / Andrew Hopkins -- Sir Henry Wotton: collector and patron / Henrietta McBurney -- Lying abroad for the good of his country: Sir Henry Wotton and Venice in the age of the interdict / Daniel McReynolds -- The learned art of architecture: Henry Wotton's Elements of Architecture (1624) / Christy Anderson -- "The wonderful picture of a city that seems to float": Sir Henry Wotton's gift to Eton of Fialetti's View of Venice / Henrietta McBurney -- Technical appendix / Ruth Bubb. Subjects; Fialetti, Odoardo (1573-1638) Criticism and interpretation. Wotton, Henry Sir (1568-1639) Art patronage. Eton College. Eton College Art collections. Art patronage Italy Venice. Architecture Italy Venice History 17th century. Architecture Italy Venice 17th century. Maps Italy Venice 17th century. Art patronage. Architecture, Renaissance Italy Venice. Architecture Italy Venice. Buildings Italy Venice. Venice (Italy) ; In art. Venice (Italy) History. Venice (Italy) In art. Venice (Italy) History. Italy Venice. Venice (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc. Genres; Art. Bibliography. Biography. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Illustrated.
Price: €45.00