Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings (Studies in British Art) - Hardcover

Bowron, Edgar Peters

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 030014816X ISBN 13: 9780300148169

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2016

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"It fully holds up Yale's reputation as the world's best art publisher: scrupulous scholarship, superb illustrations and matchless reproductions. Batoni was the most accomplished of the Grand Tour portraitists, and for anyone building up a library of 18th-century culture, this is a must."-Paul Johnson, Spectator -- Paul Johnson * Spectator * "-"

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This meticulously researched catalogue presents an authoritative assessment of the works of Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), one of the 18th century's most celebrated painters. Born in Lucca, Batoni established himself in Rome and received commissions from popes, princes, and British aristocrats on the Grand Tour. Batoni was highly sought after for his theatrical yet incisive-and often flattering-portraits. Connoisseurs and cognoscenti also prized his learned and technically brilliant allegorical, religious, and mythological compositions. With entries on more than 480 paintings and 250 drawings, this magnificent two-volume set provides the most complete examination to date of Batoni's entire oeuvre. Featuring beautiful, high-quality reproductions, the book provides thorough details on provenance and exhibition history as well as biographies of the portrait sitters. New analysis of the works, resulting from decades of research, reinterprets some of Batoni's iconography, identifies new textual and visual sources of his imagery, and reveals insights gleaned from unpublished archival materials.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 030014816X
• ISBN 13: 9780300148169
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 736