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Corot in Italy : open-air painting and the classical-landscape tradition / Peter Galassi

By:

Galassi, Peter

Contributor(s):

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille, 1796-1875

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c1991Description: 258 p. : illus. ; 29 cmISBN:

9780300067101

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

759.4 COR

Summary: In addition to offering the first critical study of Camille Corot`s magnificent Italian landscapes, Corot in Italy is also the first book to establish the coherence and significance of early outdoor painting in Italy. Generously illustrated with scores of beautiful paintings unfamiliar even to experts, Peter Galassi`s thorough examination of a brilliant episode in the work of a great painter is also a provocative contribution to the study of nineteenth-century painting.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	759.4 COR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	non fiction		002803

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-251) and index.

In addition to offering the first critical study of Camille Corot`s magnificent Italian landscapes, Corot in Italy is also the first book to establish the coherence and significance of early outdoor painting in Italy. Generously illustrated with scores of beautiful paintings unfamiliar even to experts, Peter Galassi`s thorough examination of a brilliant episode in the work of a great painter is also a provocative contribution to the study of nineteenth-century painting.

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