The History of Venice in Painting

by Terisio Pignatti, Guy Lobrichon, Daniel Russo, et al.

Venice is a magical city. For centuries, Venice has enchanted visitors with its magnificent architecture and romantic canals. As a lone republic amid mostly monarchical Europe, Venice equally amazed philosophers and poets, leading Wordsworth to hail this floating city of more than one hundred islands as "the oldest Child of Liberty."

Yet it is the imprint Venice left in the realm of painting, not only as a subject that inspired visiting artists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789209330
• ISBN13: 9780789209337
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 15.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 11.7" x 17.9"