Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

John Singer Sargent: Venetian Figures and Landscapes 1898-1913: Complete Paintings: Volume VI

4.7/5 ( ratings)

Throughout his career—and particularly in the period from 1898 to 1913—John Singer Sargent painted the spectacular architecture and scenes of everyday life in Venice, as he sat alongside the Grand Canal or in a gondola in the sleepy side canals. This lavishly illustrated book presents all the luminous masterworks that Sargent completed during that fertile fifteen-year period: oils and watercolors that reveal his taste for the Renaissance, Baroque, and high style in art and architecture as they were seen in the city’s unique light.

The book reproduces and documents 141 works, including several that are published for the first time. An authoritative essay explores the aesthetics of Sargent’s Venetian work, places it in the context of his oeuvre as a whole, explains Sargent’s relationships with his patrons in Venice, and discusses the exhibitions and marketing of this work in London and New York. The book also provides a map of Venice marking every known location that Sargent painted and displays dozens of contemporary color photographs of the sites.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre

Release: May 26, 2009

ISBN: 0300141408

ISBN 13: 9780300141405

John Singer Sargent: Venetian Figures and Landscapes 1898-1913: Complete Paintings: Volume VI

4.7/5 ( ratings)

Throughout his career—and particularly in the period from 1898 to 1913—John Singer Sargent painted the spectacular architecture and scenes of everyday life in Venice, as he sat alongside the Grand Canal or in a gondola in the sleepy side canals. This lavishly illustrated book presents all the luminous masterworks that Sargent completed during that fertile fifteen-year period: oils and watercolors that reveal his taste for the Renaissance, Baroque, and high style in art and architecture as they were seen in the city’s unique light.

The book reproduces and documents 141 works, including several that are published for the first time. An authoritative essay explores the aesthetics of Sargent’s Venetian work, places it in the context of his oeuvre as a whole, explains Sargent’s relationships with his patrons in Venice, and discusses the exhibitions and marketing of this work in London and New York. The book also provides a map of Venice marking every known location that Sargent painted and displays dozens of contemporary color photographs of the sites.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre

Release: May 26, 2009

ISBN: 0300141408

ISBN 13: 9780300141405

More books from Richard Ormond

John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits; Complete Paintings: Volume I

4.5/5 ( ratings)

John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882; Complete Paintings: Volume IV

4.7/5 ( ratings)

John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s; Complete Paintings: Volume II

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends

4.7/5 ( ratings)

John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits; Complete Paintings: Volume III

4.8/5 ( ratings)

John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal

4.6/5 ( ratings)

John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899: Complete Paintings, Volume V

4.5/5 ( ratings)

John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907: The Complete Paintings, Volume VII

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Sargent and the Sea

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Sargent's Venice

4.6/5 ( ratings)

John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?