Title & Author:

The Genius of Venice 1500-1600 / [exhibition sponsored by the Sea Containers Group and Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express Ltd.] ; edited by Jane Martineau and Charles Hope.

Publication:

London : Royal Academy of Arts, in association with Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.

Description:

413 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Catalogue of the Genius of Venice exhibition, held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, November 25,1983-March 11, 1984.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sponsor's preface / James Sherwood -- Foreword / Sir Hugh Casson -- Vencie and its empire / J.R. Hale -- Patronage in Venice / J.M. Fletcher -- Patronage on the Venetian mainland / Lionello Puppi -- Architecture / Howard Burns -- Altarpieces / Teresio Pignatti -- Portraits / Lino Moretti -- "Poesie" and painted allegories / Charles Hope -- The historians of Venetian painting / Charles Hope -- Titian and Venetian colour / John Steer -- Conservation, restoration and new findings / Francesco Valcanover -- Venetian sixteenth-century painting: the legacy / Francis Haskell -- Colour plates -- Catalogue of the paintings -- Drawing in Venice / James Byam Shaw -- Catalogue of the drawings -- Printmaking in Venice and the Veneto / David Landau -- Catalogue of the prints -- Sculpture / Bruce Boucher and Anthony Radcliffe -- Catalogue of the sculpture -- Catalogue of historical exhibits -- Venice: selective chronology, 1500-1600 -- The doges of Venice: 1473-1615.

Summary:

"Catalogue of the very substantial Genius of Venice exhibition held at the Royal Academy in Nov 1983 - Mar 1984".

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

029778322X (cased)
9780297783220 (cased)
0297783238 (pbk.)
9780297783237 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art, Italian Italy Venice Exhibitions.
Art, Renaissance Italy Venice Exhibitions.
Art, High Renaissance.
Painting Italy Veneto.
Art italien Italie Venise Expositions.
Art de la Renaissance Haute Renaissance.
Art de la Renaissance Italie Venise Expositions.
High Renaissance.
Exhibitions - Cartography. [Literature].
History of cartography. [Literature].
Art, Italian
Art, Renaissance
Kunst
Malerei
Ausstellung
Art, Italian Italy Venice 16th century Exhibitions.
Italy Venice
Venedig
Italian visual arts: Venetian visual arts, 1500-1600 - Catalogues.

Form/genre:

Ausstellung London 1983.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ausstellung.
Bildband.
Katalog.

Added entries:

Martineau, Jane.
Hope, Charles.
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Sea Containers Group.
Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Ltd.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 86896
Call No.: W14467 EXHLONDON(ENGLAND); ID:86-B17041
Status: Available