An American Painter in Venice
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
Gebundenes Buch

An American Painter in Venice

Ralph W. Curtis and the Palazzo Barbaro

Versandkostenfrei!
Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen
125,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
PAYBACK Punkte
63 °P sammeln!
A biography of the American painter Ralph W. Curtis (1854-1922) of the Boston family who bought the Palazzo Barbaro on the Grand Canal in Venice in 1885. After graduating at Harvard, Curtis moved to Paris to study art with Carolus Duran, where he met his distant cousin John S. Sargent, with whom he travelled to Holland to see Frans Hals's paintings. He exhibited at the Paris salons, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and at the Venice Biennale in the 1880s. At Palazzo Barbaro he met Robert Browning and Henry James as well as Venetian painters such as Ettore Tito and Antonio Mancini. He tr...