VENETIAN NARRATIVE PAINTING IN THE AGE OF CARPACCIO
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Second printing. "During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Venetians lined their government council chambers and religious fraternities with narrative paintings of pageantry, diplomacy and pious legend. These works - which include Carpaccio's pictorial stories about St. Ursula, St. George and St. Jerome, as well as Bellini's panoramic recordings of the urban scene - have often been discussed, but in isolation from their social context and from each other. This richly illustrated book is the first to examine them all together, as representatives of a single genre of painting that was stylistically peculiar to Venice and uniquely expressive of the social, cultural and aesthetic values of Venetian Renaissance society." Quarto: [vi], 310 p. with numerous illustrations (most color). Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Fine / Fine. Item #76176
ISBN: 0300040253
Price: $85.00