| book details |

Sargent and Italy

By (author) Jane Dini, By (author) Ilene Susan Fort, By (author) Stephanie L. Herdrich, By (author) R.W.B. Lewis, By (author) Richard Ormond, Edited by Bruce Robertson

| enquire |

| book description |

This illustrated catalogue - published in association with a major transatlantic exhibition - evokes the romantic fascination with Italy that can be seen in the work of John Singer Sargent.The majority of works are of Italian sites, including well-known tourist spots but also the quieter, more isolated locales that Sargent sought out. His subjects include magnificent Italian gardens with their ancient and baroque statuary, Rome's Neoclassical and Renaissance buildings, urban street scenes, the Italian Alps, and, of course, Venetian canals. Sargent found Venice particularly alluring, and the city well suited the watercolour medium in which he worked most often in Italy. His use of vivid colours, brushwork that varied from soft and fluid to bold and daashing, and an overwhelming sense of light and air characterize his Italian scenes - and rank Sargent as one of the finest watercolourists of all time. His later Italian works, some in watercolour and others in oil, reveal an artist who relished his materials and made art purely for art's sake.

| product details |

| other options |

| back |

| your trolley |

To view the items in your trolley please sign in.

| sign in |

| specials |

The Memory Collectors: A Novel

Dete Meserve
Paperback / softback
320 pages

Enquiries only

| more |

| enquire |

Survive the AI Apocalypse: A guide for solutionists

Bronwyn Williams
Paperback / softback
232 pages
was: R 340.95
now: R 306.95
Stock is usually dispatched in 6-12 days from date of order

Look around you is anything real or normal any more? News, images and videos created by AI are everywhere.

| more |

| add to trolley |

The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future

Mustafa Suleyman
Paperback / softback
352 pages
was: R 295.95
now: R 265.95
Stock is usually dispatched in 6-12 days from date of order

| more |

| add to trolley |

The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes

William Kelleher Storey
Paperback / softback
528 pages
was: R 425.95
now: R 382.95
Usually dispatched in 6-12 days

This first comprehensive biography of Cecil Rhodes in a generation illuminates Rhodesâ€™s vision for the expansion of imperialism in southern Africa, connecting politics and industry to internal development, and examines how this fueled a lasting, white-dominated colonial society.

| more |

| add to trolley |