The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century Royal Academy of the Arts, London 1994 & National Gallery of Art, Washington 1995 NEW kk

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. 1st Impression. Paperbound. NEW/No Dust Jacket. Jumbo demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 528. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Goodreads notes: "I read through all the sections on the major artists in 2011. Loved it! Didn't want to part with the book. But it wasn't mine. I came away with a particular appreciation for Piranesi and Bellotto, two 18th century Venetian artists with significantly different visions, Piranesi being my favorite. Their visions represent a contrast between fantasy and realism, Piranesi creating etchings of structures and places transformed with additions of his own imagination. Bellotto, on the other hand, was the careful precisionist of realism, replicating landscapes and urban-scapes with a perspective so accurate, it is conjectured that he used a 'camera obscura' to achieve this. Piranesi's etchings were the product of 'dreams', familiar objects and places stretched, expanded, modded into entities more marvelous than their originals. But they were not impressionistic! They were realistic renderings of the unreal. It was the content, not the style that was fantastical. Take an afternoon and read up on this exotic Venetian innovator. Peruse through his works."