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 | | Antonio Pellegrini, 1675-1741 (Clarendon Studies in the History of Art) by George Knox ISBN-10: 9780198175124 ISBN-10: 0-19-817512-4 ISBN-13: 9780198175124 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-817512-4 Hardcover 1995-03-23 Oxford University Press, USA Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This is the first book to describe the brilliant career of the most sought-after Venetian history painter in early eighteenth-century Europe. It presents the existing documentation, discusses Pellegrini's major commissions and their patrons, offers an indication of his relationship with other contemporary painters, and provides a background against which the many smaller canvases can be considered. | ||
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Redacted from a dissertation. This book is largely based on a 1994 doctoral disserttion by another author submitted at the University of Chicago. The book covers most but not all of Pellegrini's travels throughout Europe when he was famous as a history painter and decorator, having worked in England, France,Holland ,Belgium, Germany, Austria and possibly Prague during various trips out of Venice. The book does not cover the majority of his works in Venice but uses them for some comparisons. Pellegrini can be considered the founder of the Venetian Rococo style of painting and without his works in the early 18th century, the styles in France and Italy would have been different due to his departure from the darker and more somber style of the late 17th century. Tiepolo, for example, owes a great deal to Pellegini's pioneering style. | ||