Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings: Volume II: Venice 1540-1600

5/5 ( ratings)

This substantial and beautifully illustrated volume documents the National Gallery’s unrivaled collection of Venetian paintings created between 1540 and 1600, including some of the greatest works commissioned by the city from Veronese, Titian, Tintoretto, and the Bassano family. The collection is so rich and varied that the book serves as an introduction to all the major types of painting produced in Venice during this period––the altarpiece, portrait, confraternity chapel decoration, ceiling and furniture painting, and paintings for the portego of a palace. Among the many important works included are Titian's Vendramin Family Venerating a Relic of the True Cross, Veronese's Family of Darius and four Allegories, and Tintoretto's Origin of the Milky Way. Nicholas Penny provides comprehensive and detailed information reflecting the most up-to-date scholarship on the paintings––many of which have passed through some of the greatest collections in Europe––along with a thorough discussion of their provenance.

Language: English

Pages: 544

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: National Gallery London

Release: May 14, 2008

ISBN: 1857099133

ISBN 13: 9781857099133

The Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings: Volume II: Venice 1540-1600

5/5 ( ratings)

This substantial and beautifully illustrated volume documents the National Gallery’s unrivaled collection of Venetian paintings created between 1540 and 1600, including some of the greatest works commissioned by the city from Veronese, Titian, Tintoretto, and the Bassano family. The collection is so rich and varied that the book serves as an introduction to all the major types of painting produced in Venice during this period––the altarpiece, portrait, confraternity chapel decoration, ceiling and furniture painting, and paintings for the portego of a palace. Among the many important works included are Titian's Vendramin Family Venerating a Relic of the True Cross, Veronese's Family of Darius and four Allegories, and Tintoretto's Origin of the Milky Way. Nicholas Penny provides comprehensive and detailed information reflecting the most up-to-date scholarship on the paintings––many of which have passed through some of the greatest collections in Europe––along with a thorough discussion of their provenance.

Language: English

Pages: 544

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: National Gallery London

Release: May 14, 2008

ISBN: 1857099133

ISBN 13: 9781857099133

More books from Nicholas Penny

Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Titian

4.2/5 ( ratings)

A Closer Look: Frames

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Raphael: From Urbino to Rome

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Ruskin's Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Dickens and the Artists

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Durer to Veronese: Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The National Gallery London: Director's Choice

2.7/5 ( ratings)

The Materials of Sculpture

Lucian Freud, works on paper.

A Closer Look: Pictorial Space

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The King's Pictures: The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Raphael: (Grove Art Essentials) (Grove Art Essentials Series)

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Raphael: From Urbino to Rome (National Gallery London)

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Grosvenor Gallery Exhibitions: Change and Continuity in the Victorian Art World

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Piranesi

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Frames

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Desiderio da Settingano: Sculptor or Renaissance Florence

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Art of the Renaissance Bronze: The Robert H. Smith Collection, Expanded Edition

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?