Expanding horizons : Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the panoramic landscape
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Expanding horizons : Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the panoramic landscape
National Galleries of Scotland, 2012
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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, June 30-Oct. 28, 2012
Includes bibliographical references (p.227-231)
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This is the first publication in English devoted to the extraordinary work of the Italian landscape watercolourist Giovanni Battista Lusieri (1754-1821). His career took him from his native Rome to Naples, then to Sicily and finally to the eastern Mediterranean, where he spent twenty years in the service of the 7th Earl of Elgin as his resident artist and agent in Athens. In that capacity he was closely involved in the removal of the celebrated marbles from the Parthenon and other monuments in Greece. Lusieri's watercolours combine a broad, panoramic vision, an uncanny ability to capture brilliant Mediterranean light and a meticulous, almost photographic attention to detail. He was widely acclaimed as one of the most accomplished landscape artists of his day, and his works were eagerly sought by British Grand Tourists, but after his death he was soon forgotten, and only recently have his exceptional gifts begun to be recognised once again.
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