Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Giovanni Francesco Costa
Creator Nationality/Dates:
Italy, (?) -1773
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
Veduta del Palazzo de' NN: H.H.: Pisani
Date:
1750
Materials:
Etching
Current Location:
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-2250
Object ID:
1972.10
Notes:
Like Canaletto's, much of Costa's style traces to his work as a designer of stage sets, and, in Costa's case, as an architect. Costa worked with many of the most influential Italian Neoclassicists of his time, including the architect Andrea Palladio, for whom he designed the frontispiece of his seminal book, The Five Orders of Architecture (1746).
Notes:
The Vedute, or views of Venice, were a fashionable series of engraved urban scenes carried out by Costa (and other artists, including Canaletto). The views showed the homes and haunts of well-to-do Venetians in a distinctive, rigorous perspective.
Acquisition Information:
Bequest of Andrew C. Lawson
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft9r29p1r 3

Veduta del Palazzo de' NN: H.H.: Pisani