Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Veduta del Palazzo de' NN: H.H.: Pisani
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Creator Name:
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Giovanni Francesco Costa
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Creator Nationality/Dates:
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Italy, (?) -1773
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Title:
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Veduta del Palazzo de' NN: H.H.: Pisani
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Date:
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1750
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Materials:
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Etching
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Current Location:
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Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
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Address:
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Berkeley, California 94720-2250
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Object ID:
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1972.10
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Notes:
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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).
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Notes:
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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.
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Acquisition Information:
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Bequest of Andrew C. Lawson
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/ft9r29p1r3
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