Main entry:

Links, J. G.

Title & Author:

Townscape painting and drawing, [by] J.G. Links.

Publication:

London, Batsford, 1972.

Description:

xviii, 261 pages illustrations 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Topgography and art -- How dark an age? -- A little light -- Ambrogio Lorenzetti -- The first topographical painting -- English illuminators -- The Duke of Berry's influence -- Jean Fouquet -- Robert Campin -- Jan van Eyck -- Roger van der Weyden -- Quattrocento Italy -- The thrill of perspective -- Ideal perspective -- Intarsia -- Mantua -- The first Venice view-paintings -- The first travel books -- Maps and bird's-eye views -- Jacopo de' Barbari -- Durer in Venice -- The dawn of the Sixteenth Century -- De' Barbari's late followers -- El Greco -- The distant view -- The London panoramas -- Wenceslas Hollar -- The street as a subject -- The first Dutch townscape painting -- Jan Vermeer -- The first townscape painter -- The townscape school -- The beginning of Italian view-painting -- Canaletto's forerunners -- Giovanni Antonio Canal -- The other Vedutisti -- Giovanni Battista Piranesi -- Topographical art in England -- Canaletto in England -- Canaletto goes home -- Bellotto.

ISBN:

0713407263
9780713407266

Subject:

Cities and towns in art.
Drawings, European.
Villes dans l'art.
European townscape paintings, to 1900
European townscape drawings, to 1900

Holdings:

Location: Library main 6420
Call No.: PO5191; ID:87-B12687
Status: Available