Corot in Italy: Open-Air Painting and the Classical-Landscape Tradition

by Peter Galassi

Book Overview

Arriving in Rome in 1825, Corot spent three years painting and drawing the landscape nearby. In their freshness and candour, his open-air studies seem to point forward, toward Impressionism. Galassi shows that they also point to the past. Half a century before Corot visited Italy, the community of foreign artists at Rome had spawned a school of outdoor painting.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300049579
• ISBN13: 9780300049572
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 10.1" x 11.9"

Customer Reviews

Corot in Italy is a wonderful piece of historical beauty

I can't praise this book enough. Corot's work in Italy are in my mind some of the greatest plein air painting ever done.Seeing his work compared to his contemporaries etc. is very interesting. One also appreciates the allure of the Italian landscape. Corot is sometimes viewed as the father of Impressionism(his later work). But I could look at these landscapes all day. His realism and fresh painting technique is really sumptuous, and it's a good thing he found his niche in painting rather late.Buy this book, you won't regret it if you love landscape.