Renaissance to Rococo: Masterpieces from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
- ISBN-10
- 0300102054
- ISBN-13
- 9780300102055
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 182
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Authors
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Joseph Baillio, Edgar Peters Bowron
Description
"The museum's distinguished director in the 1930s and 1940s, Chick Austin, acquired notable works by Strozzi, Luca Giordano, Claude, and the first authentic Caravaggio in an American museum. Today the Atheneum can present an exhibition beginning with such renaissance masters as Piero di Cosimo and Sebastiano del Piombo, continuing with the finest examples of Baroque painting, and culminating in a blaze of rococo splendor with Tiepolo, Canaletto, Guardi, Melendez, Greuze, and Goya. This catalogue includes a history of the collection by Eric Zafran and entries on the individual paintings by distinguished scholars."--BOOK JACKET.
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