Eyewitness Views - Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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Coronation Banquet of Joseph II at the Romer in Frankfurt
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Demolition of the Ruins of the Kreuzkirche
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Doge Alvise IV Mocenigo in the Corpus Christi Procession in Piazza San Marco
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Fine Art Appreciation Day
Garden Side
Giovanni e Paolo
Grasso Festival in the Piazzetta
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Kreuzkirche in Dresden
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Pontifical Ceremony in Ss. Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Pius VI Blessing the Crowd in Campo Ss
Pope Pius VI Descending the Throne to Take Leave of the Doge in the Hall of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo
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Queen of Spain to Villa Farnese at Caprarola
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Schonbrunn Palace
Schronbrunn Palace with the Arrival of the Courier from the Battle of Kunersdorf
Seven Years' War
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The Abdication of Charles III as King of Naples in Favor of His Son Ferdinand
The Duc de Saint-Aignan Presents the Order of the Holy Spirit to Prince Girolamo Vaini
The Feast of Santa Marta
The Meeting of Pope Pius VI and Doge Paolo Renier at San Giorgio in Alga
The Solemnization of the Marriage of James III and Maria Clementina Sobieska
The Visit of Elisabeth Farnese
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- ISBN 9781606065259
- Weight: 1764g
- Dimensions: 262 x 283mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2017
- Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Caravarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert-these renowned view painters are perhaps best known for their expansive canvases depicting the ruins of Rome or the canals of Venice. Many of their most splendid paintings, however, feature important contemporary events. Little explored by scholars, they stand out by virtue of their extraordinary artistic quality, vibrant atmosphere, and historical interest. Imbued with a sense of occasion, even drama, and often commissioned by or for rulers, princes, and ambassadors as records of significant events in which they participated, these occasions motivated some of the greatest artists of the era to produce their most exceptional work. Lavishly illustrated and exhaustively researched, this volume provides the first-ever comprehensive study-in any language-of this type of view painting. In examining these paintings alongside the historical events depicted in them, Peter Bjorn Kerber carefully reconstructs the meaning and context these paintings possessed for the artists who produced them and the patrons who commissioned them, as well as for their contemporary viewers.
This vital book represents a major contribution to the field of view painting studies and will be an essential resource to scholars and enthusiasts.
Peter Bjorn Kerber is assistant curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
