Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome (Houston Museum of Fine Arts) - Hardcover

Edgars Peters Bowron; Peter Bjorn Kerber

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300126808 ISBN 13: 9780300126808

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787) was the most celebrated painter in Rome in his day. For nearly half a century, he recorded the visits of international travellers on the Grand Tour, and these portraits remain among the most memorable artistic accomplishments of the period. His history, religious, and mythological paintings were also highly prized by great patrons and collectors in Britain and on the Continent. This book, published in celebration of the tercentenary of Batoni's birth, offers a vivid appreciation of his work. More than 150 full-colour illustrations represent the finest examples of his paintings from public and private collections in Europe and the United States. Some of these works are newly discovered and some have never before been on public display. A series of illuminating essays explores Batoni's art, his various patrons, his working methods and techniques, his final years, and his historiography and critical reception.

About this title

Review:

'[This] survey of the painter's career [is] very well documented and painstaking in its account of his methods and resources.'
-- Jonathan Keates, Times Literary Supplement, May 9, 2008

About the Author:

Edgar Peters Bowron is Audrey Jones Beck Curator of European Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and a specialist in eighteenth-century Italian art. Peter Bjorn Kerber completed his doctoral thesis on Pompeo Batoni at the University of Munich.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0300126808
• ISBN 13: 9780300126808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240