Boudewun Bakker (3 results)

Hardcover. First Edition. Demy ftable, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed cardinal-red cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 270. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. . A veduta (Italian for "view"; plural vedute) is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of vedute are referred to as vedutisti. . As the itinerary of the Grand Tour became somewhat standardized, vedute of familiar scenes like the Roman Forum or the Grand Canal recalled early ventures to the Continent for aristocratic Englishmen. By the mid-18th century, Venice became renowned as the centre of the vedutisti. The genre was pioneered by Luca Carlevarijs, and its greatest practitioners belonged to the Canal and Guardi families of Venice. Some of them went to work as painters in major capitals of Europe, e.g., Canaletto in London and his nephew Bernardo Bellotto in Dresden and Warsaw. In exceptionally good condition In exceptionally good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. New and unopened, still in cellophane wrapper, some light wear to corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. Book by Aikema, Bernard, Boudewun, Bakker.