This selection of postcards illustrates the longtime fascination of great artists with the unique beauty of the lagoon city of Venice. Canaletto is the best known of the early view painters, yet Bernardo Bellotto, Francesco Guardi, and many others also responded to the city’s striking imagery. In the nineteenth century J.M.W. Turner turned his considerable talents to depicting the dazzling architecture and shimmering light of Venice. Later, Claude Monet, James McNeill Whistler, and John Singer Sargent brought their distinctly modern sensibilities to rendering the fabled city.
30 color reproductions bound in a handy postcard collection.
Oversized postcards measure 6.5 x 4.75 inches.
