Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Some of the most important Italian baroque paintings in America are included here: major works by Anton Maria Vassallo, Bernardo Strozzi, Donato Creti, Sebastiano Ricci, and Giambattista Tiepolo; a number of view paintings by the popular eighteenth-century Venetian artists Canaletto, Bellotto, and Guardi; and the only landscape by Annibale Carracci in the United States. Among the sixty-nine works presented are Orazio Gentileschi's Lute Player, considered his masterpiece; Jusepe de Ribera's Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew; and one of Bernardo Bellotto's largest and best paintings, The Fortress of Knigstein.Bowron, Edgar Peters is the author of 'Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries' with ISBN 9780894682162 and ISBN 0894682164.