The Glory Of Venice: Art In The Eighteenth Century by Martineau, Jane & Andrew Robison (eds)

New Haven: Yale University, 1995. 1st. Paperback. Near fine. First paperback edition bound in the publisher's original illustrated wraps. Lightly rubbed at extremities, else fine. Profusely illustrated throughout.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. 1st Impression. Paperbound. NEW/No Dust Jacket. Jumbo demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 528. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Goodreads notes: "I read through all the sections on the major artists in 2011. Loved it! Didn't want to part with the book. But it wasn't mine. I came away with a particular appreciation for Piranesi and Bellotto, two 18th century Venetian artists with significantly different visions, Piranesi being my favorite. Their visions represent a contrast between fantasy and realism, Piranesi creating etchings of structures and places transformed with additions of his own imagination. Bellotto, on the other hand, was the careful precisionist of realism, replicating landscapes and urban-scapes with a perspective so accurate, it is conjectured that he used a 'camera obscura' to achieve this. Piranesi's etchings were the… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Softcover. VG- (Some soiling to page edges; Light wear to extremities; Former owner's name written on title page). Color illus. wraps with French flaps; 528 pp. Appx. 292 color & bw plates. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1994 and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in 1995; Venice, home of Tiepolo, Canaletto, Piranesi, Piazzetta, and Guardi, was the most artistic city of eighteenth-century Italy. This beautiful book examines the whole range of the arts in Venice during this period, including paintings, pastels and gouaches, drawings and watercolours, prints and illustrated books and sculpture. The book begins with an introduction by Andrew Robison, and a general introduction to Venetian art by Michael Levey. Essays by other eminent authorities then discuss the international taste for Venetian art and major aspects of the art of the period. The essays are followed by a catalogue that discusses… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers, self-flaps. Very good with spine cocked. Exhibition catalogue for Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1994 and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

New Haven and London.: Yale University Press., 1994. 532pp, colour illustrations. . Paperback. Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1994. Softcover. VG (Previous owner's name written on ffep. Color illus. wraps; French flaps; 528 pp. Appx. 292 color & bw plates. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1994 and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in 1995; Contains seventeen chapters, with topics such as 18th-century Venetian art, cultural politics in 18th-century Venice, rococo artists, the Brothers Guardi, Domenico Tiepolo and his contemporaries, Bernardo Bellotto, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and Antonio Canova, etc. Filled with magnificent illustrations.

Yale University Press, 1997. Book. Very Good. paperback. 1st Edition. large paperback, 11 7/10" x 9 4/5", pictorial gloss card covers with return flaps, faint crease to spine else a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, illustrated throughout, 532pp. Owing to size and weight, a request for additional postage might be made if this book is ordered from locations without the United Kingdom..

New Haven/London, Yale University Press, 1994. Softcover. Good. Wrinkle in back cover.

Yale University Press, 1997. Paperback. Near new condition, covers bright, text clean and binding sound. Size: 9.75x11.75 inches, 528pp., illus. Text in English.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 10 x 12 in. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Lavish B&W and color illus. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers like new but with minor dust line along lower front. Binding tight and text clean with gift message on verso of ffep. DJ is VERY GOOD ; no price to clip, very minor edge wear, bright and lovely. Art. RGR.