Pompeo Batoni : prince of painters in eighteenth-century Rome / Edgar Peters Bowron and Peter Björn Kerber.
Published / Created:
New Haven : Yale University Press ; 2007.Houston : Museum of Fine Arts, 2007.
Physical Description:
ix, 230 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oct. 21, 2007-Jan. 27, 2008 and at the National Gallery, London, Feb. 20-May 18, 2008.
Contents:
Inventive storytelling: the early subject pictures -- Batoni's British patrons and the grand tour -- Painter of princes and prince of painters -- Restorer of the Roman school: final years and reception -- Drawings, working methods, and studio practices.