Venetian Painting

VENETIAN PAINTING
A CONCISE HISTORY
John Steer

"Professor Steer's book is knowledgeable, readable and, above all, stimulating." —Arts Review

"A scholarly and careful account . . . Quite plainly he loves his subject and has deep knowledge of it."

—The Times Educational Supplement

Venetian painting grew out of Byzantine art, and its opulence and sensuousness clearly differentiate it from the more intellectual art of Florence. In this lively history of the Venetian school, John Steer traces its development between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. From the Bellinis onwards, Venetian artists used light, space and, above all, color to dramatic effect, as seen in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century works of Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese, and, in the eighteenth century, Canaletto, Tiepolo and Guardi.

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