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Pompeo Batoni. Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome

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Autore/i	Bowron, Edgar Peters. Kerber e Peter Bjorn
Editore	Yale University Press	Luogo	Londra
Anno	2007	Pagine	230
Dimensioni	25X30 (cm)	Illustrazioni	152 tavv. a colori n.t.
Legatura	leg. edit. con sovracc. ill. a colori	Conservazione
Lingua		Peso	1500 (gr)
ISBN	0300126808	EAN-13	9780300126808

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (October 21, 2007 – January 27, 2008)

National Gallery, London (February 20 – May 18, 2008)

Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787) was the most celebrated painter in Rome in his day. For nearly half a century he recorded the visits of international travelers on the Grand Tour, and these portraits remain among the most memorable artistic accomplishments of the period. His history, religious, and mythological paintings were also highly prized by great patrons and collectors in Britain and on the Continent.

This book, published in celebration of the tercentenary of Batoni’s birth, offers a vivid appreciation of his work. More than 150 full-color illustrations represent the finest examples of his paintings from public and private collections in Europe and the United States. Some of these works are newly discovered and some have never before been on public display. A series of illuminating essays explores Batoni’s art, his various patrons, his working methods and techniques, his final years, and his historiography and critical reception.Edgar Peters Bowron is Audrey Jones Beck Curator of European Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and a specialist in eighteenth-century Italian art. Peter Björn Kerber completed his doctoral thesis on Pompeo Batoni at the University of Munich.