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No other city in the world has captured the hearts and imaginations of so many artists and writers as Venice. One of the most famous of all these was Henry James, who, for more than thirty years, from 1881, returned regularly to the city he called "the enchantress," recalling and evoking its unique atmosphere in countless letters and essays, as well as more allusively in fictional works such as The Aspern Papers and The Wings of the Dove.
During these same years two other expatriate Americans also fell under the enchantress's spell: the artists John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler. They shared with James an affinity of response to Venice-to its elegiac mood, its fading opulence and pervasive odor of decay—that distinguished their work from that of all other artists who painted Venice. Whistler and Sargent depicted "a Venice in Venice": the city's unfrequented canals and campi, its crumbling
balconies and neglected gardens, its beggars, bead stringers, glass workers, and gondoliers— subjects about which James wrote passionately in his "Italian Hours" essays, four of which are included here.
This beautiful and authoritative book, written by the eminent art historians Hugh Honour and John Fleming, contains 130 exquisite watercolors, oil paintings, etchings, drawings, and black-and-white photographs of the period. It is a celebration not only of the lives and works of three major artists, but of the wonderfully romantic city Venice itself

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Autore/i Hugh Honour, John Fleming
Editore Bulfinch Press Luogo London
Anno 1991 Pagine 180
Dimensioni 23x24x2 (cm) Illustrazioni 130 ill. colori n.t. - colors ills
Legatura tela ed. sovracc. ill. colori - hardcover with dustjacket Conservazione Usato ottime condizioni - used very good
Lingua Inglese - English text Peso 900 (gr)
ISBN 0821218611 EAN-13 9780821218617