Venice and Drawing 1500-1800: Theory, Practice and Collecting
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. Hardcover. Square quarto. Hardcover. Red coth in illustrated jacket. xxxv, 344 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. VG/VG-. Jacket has two closed tears at head of spine, corners lightly bumped. Item #213893
ISBN: 9780300187731
From the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo, drawing was an important part of artistic practice and was highly valued in Venice. This exciting new study overturns traditional views on the significance of drawing in Venice, as an art and an act, from the Renaissance to the age of the Grand Tour. Gathering together the separate strands of theory, artistic practice, and collecting, Catherine Whistler highlights the interactions and tensions between a developing literary discourse and the practices of making and collecting graphic art. Her analysis challenges the conventional definition of Venetian art purely in terms of colour, demonstrating that 16th-century Venetian artists and writers had a highly developed sense of the role and importance of disegno and drawing in art.
OCLC: 930059072
Price: $95.00