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Venice in the age of Canaletto / [editors, Alexandra Libby, Marina Pacini, and Stanton Thomas]

Contributor(s): Libby, Alexandra | Pacini, Marina | Thomas, Stanton | John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art | Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Publisher: [Memphis] : New York, NY : Memphis Brooks Museum of Art ; Distributed worldwide by Prestel, c2009.Description: 170 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 31 cm.ISBN: 9783791380001; 3791380001Subject(s): Canaletto, 1697-1768 -- Exhibitions | Art, Italian -- Italy -- Venice -- 18th century -- Exhibitions | Landscape painting -- Italy -- Venice -- 18th century -- Exhibitions | Landscape painting, Italian -- 18th century -- Exhibitions | Venice (Italy) -- Civilization -- 18th century -- Exhibitions | Venice (Italy) -- In art -- ExhibitionsLOC classification: N6921.V5 | V43 2009
Contents:
Canaletto: a brief biography / Alexandra Libby -- George Proctor: merchant, then gentleman, and the English taste for Canaletto / Stanton Thomas -- An armchair on the Grand Canal: the Prospectus Magni Canalis Venetiarum of 1735 / Eugene J. Johnson and Leslie N. Johnson -- Private images for public spaces: religious art in eighteenth-century Venice / William Barcham -- Ludovico Ughi map -- Catalogue.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Prints and Drawings Shelves Bn.1.32 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available PD10000608
Total holds: 0

Catalogue of the exhibition held at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Oct. 8, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010; and at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Feb. 14-May 9, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-168).

Canaletto: a brief biography / Alexandra Libby -- George Proctor: merchant, then gentleman, and the English taste for Canaletto / Stanton Thomas -- An armchair on the Grand Canal: the Prospectus Magni Canalis Venetiarum of 1735 / Eugene J. Johnson and Leslie N. Johnson -- Private images for public spaces: religious art in eighteenth-century Venice / William Barcham -- Ludovico Ughi map -- Catalogue.