The Image of Venice: Fialetti's View and Sir Henry Wotton

by Henrietta Ryan, Deborah Howard, Christy Anderson, et al.

The city of Venice holds a special place in the global imagination. This book explores the creation of one of its largest surviving depictions, which has remained almost unknown to the wider public since its creation exactly four centuries ago. Singed and dated 1611, the painting is the work of the notable early seventeenth-century Bolognese artist Odoardo Fialetti. His huge birds-eye view of the watery townscape is enlivened by tiny vignettes of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907372482
• ISBN13: 9781907372483
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.7" x 10.3"