Giambattista Piazzetta: 1682-1754

by George Knox

Giambattista Piazzetta, together with Giambattista Tiepolo, dominates history painting in eighteenth-century Venice. The greatest religious painter of his time, he was also widely known for his delightful small secular illustrations for printed books, when Venice was an important and influential center of book production. His drawings, especially the characteristic studies of heads of ordinary men and women, were popular with collectors and widely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198173938
• ISBN13: 9780198173939
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.