FRESCOES OF THE VENETO. VENETIAN PALACES AND VILLAS

Soon after Giorgione introduced the fresco to Venice in the early 16th century, Venetian noble families began to commission the greatest masters of European painting to create grand fresco cycles for the interiors of their city palaces and their splendid villas on the mainland. This superbly photographed volume celebrates these frescoes, among the supreme achievements of Italian art and culture, providing an expertly guided tour of the beautiful residences in which they appear.

From complex allegories to Baroque masterpieces to fanciful distant worlds, Frescoes of the Veneto explores the changing nature of this tradition over the course of three centuries and features work by major artists such as Andrea Urbani and Giambattista Tiepolo, as well as lesser-known painters such as Giovanni Antonio Fasolo, Luca Ferrari da Reggio, and Jacopo Guarana. This splendid volume will be irresistible to lovers of Italian art and architecture and aficionados of the Veneto alike.

 

About the Contributor(s)
FILIPPO PEDROCCO, a Venetian art historian, is director of the Ca’ Rezzonico Museum of Eighteenth-Century Venice. MASSIMO FAVILLA has taught urban and regional planning at the Università IUAV in Venice and now teaches the history of art criticism at the Università Ca’ Foscari. RUGGERO RUGOLO has taught the history of modern art at the Università Ca’ Foscari. LUCA SASSI is a photographer and a publisher of art, architecture, and photography books.