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Sargent's Venice

Sargent's Venice
By Richard Ormond, Warren Adelson

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John Singer Sargent returned to Venice many times during his life, endlessly fascinated with this enchanting city. In paintings filled with vivid colors and dazzling light, he sought to capture its vitality and unique ambience, often working while afloat in a gondola. This gorgeously illustrated book presents nearly seventy of Sargent’s oil and watercolor paintings of Venice, many of them famous but others only rarely seen. The book also contains fascinating new photographs of actual sites depicted in Sargent’s paintings.
Sargent’s early works in Venice were created in 1880-1882, and he undertook a second, larger body of work in the city during visits from 1900 to 1913. His responses to Venice—its local figures, its buildings and waterways, its extraordinary light—reflect his changing interests over time as well as his lifelong ability to extend his own reach as a creative artist. The book considers various aspects of Sargent’s work and milieu in a series of informative essays by international scholars. They discuss the evolution of Sargent’s style, the topography of his work in Venice, his connections with Henry James and other Americans in Venice, Italian artists in Venice in the nineteenth century, and American artists in Venice in the nineteenth century.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #260187 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-12-10
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 224 pages

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About the Author
Richard L. Ormond, formerly director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, is an independent art historian living in London. He is the coauthor of books on Sargent, Landseer, Winterhalter, and Lord Leighton, and he is a great-nephew of John Singer Sargent. Warren Adelson is owner of Adelson Galleries in New York City.

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Sargent's Venice Paintings5
are a fresh antidote to the usual stale paintings by late 19th century artists. This book shows the range and depth of Mr. Sargent's Venice painitings, including those that show the seamy side of Venetian life that many contempory paintings largely ignored, either by romanticizing/sanitizing the working classes or ignoring them altogether, preferring to painting the familiar scenes such as the Doge's palace/St.Mark's church and carnivale.

Mr. Sargent is a storyteller in paintbrush. I recommend art lovers to read his book.

I'm dedicating this review to my late grandmother. May she rests in peace.

Stephanie B.

Another Venetian Master5
SARGENT'S VENICE is a book that makes Sargent more than a great portrait painter. It reveals that he could be equally good at landscapes of the world's most beautiful city. His views of Venice are intimate, exploratory, perceptive, Venice seen from a gondola snaking its way through the canals. The prow of the gondola figures in many of his paintings. Venice has been the province of great painters since Tintoretto and Sargent now joins their company, thanks to this book.

beautiful book5
Thoroughly enjoyed the exhibition, and this book is a wonderful keepsake illustrated with abundant, good quality color reproductions. I would highly recommend this book. I appreciate Amazon's hassle free, speedy delivery as well.