For over a millennium, the Italian coastal state of the Most Serene
Republic of Venice, or La Serenissima, flourished as a center for
sea trade and the arts. Here an important final phase of late
Baroque mythological and Biblical painting took place. Venice also
became an important destination on the Grand Tour, where its
aquatic setting and unique network of canals, palaces, and churches
inspired a talented group of view painters, especially during the
eighteenth century. Today, collections throughout North America
hold many works from this prolific period.
"La Serenissima" presents new scholarship on works that have not
received due public attention in recent years and brings together
approximately 65 works of art from more than 25 collections.
Together, they represent important regional developments in
religious and topographical painting as well as genre and
portraiture. These artworks display the inimitable aspects of
Venetian taste and culture in the age of the Grand Tour and through
the decline of the Republic. La Serenissima also casts new light on
the achievements of Venetian view painters, including master
painter Antonio Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Carlevarijs, and
Francesco Guardi.
Hardy George is curator of the exhibition "La Serenissima:
Eighteenth-century Venetian Art from North American Collections" at
the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Other contributors are George
Knox, Alison Palmer, Jon Seydl, Andria Derstine, Edgar Peters
Bowron, and John Marciari.
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