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Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (The Collections of the National Gallery of Art : Systematic Catalogue)
Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - The Collections of the National Gallery of Art : Systematic Catalogue Author:Eric Garberson, Edgar Peters Bowron, Diane Degrazia 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 Carr... more »acci 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.« less