Paintings in Venice

by Philip Rylands, Augusto Gentili, Giovanna Nepi Scire

Book Overview

A great museum is often the focal point of an artistic metropolis. While Paris is home to the Louvre, London the National Gallery and New York the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the paintings in Venice - some of the most important and magnificent found anywhere on the globe - are not housed under a single roof. Instead, the city as a whole is known as the greatest storehouse of paintings in the world. The work of great masters, past and modern alike,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821228137
• ISBN13: 9780821228135
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Bulfinch Press
• Length: 607 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.0" x 10.5" x 12.6"