The Great Museums of the World.
The most authoritative scholars, the spectacular iconography.

The volume exposes the large heritage of Venice taking the reader to various prestigious places ranging from the Gallerie dell’Accademia up to the Palazzo Ducale, from Ca’ Rezzonico up to the Museo Correr, from the Ca’ d’Oro up to the Scuola di San Rocco, not to mention those incomparable coffers of masterpieces that are the Venetian churches, actual pinacotecas of fundamental importance. Moreover, thanks to the triumph of its absolute masterpieces by Bellini, Tiziano, Tintoretto, and Veronese, the pictorial decoration of Palazzo Ducale is an actual anthology of the Venetian Renaissance painting. But the real surprise is the presence, unique in Italy, of all the greatest modern masters
such as Picasso, Braque, Léger, Kandinskij, Mondrian, Klimt, Klee, Chagall, Max Ernst, Magritte, and Bacon, and of the greatest artists of the Italian artistic movements of Futurism and Metaphysical Painting. Through eight centuries of painting, this extraordinary volume retraces history, customs, and culture not only of Venice but of the whole of Europe.

Technical features

• Size cm 24 x 29,5

• Pages 606

• Images 507

• Italian Language

• Binding in canvas with hot gold impressions

• Book Jacket in 5 colors

• Slipcase in canvas with colored inserts

Authors

Giovanna Sciré Nepi (Special Superintendent for the Venetian Museum Complex), Augusto Gentili (professor at Ca’ Foscari University, and expert in Venetian painting of the 15th and 16th centuries), Giandomenico Romanelli (former Director of Venetian Civic Museums, esteemed university professor and curator of exhibitions of international success), and Philip Rylands (Emeritus Director of Peggy Guggenheim Collection) reveal the artistic coordinates that have made Venice the port where beauty rules.

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I Dipinti di Venezia