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Item Number: 119332
Title: Expanding Horizons : GIOVANNI BATTIST LUSIERI and the Panoramic Landscape
Author: Weston-Lewis, Aidan (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781906270469
Description: Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2012. 30 x 25cm., hardcover, 236pp. illus., most in color. Exhibition catalogue. From the museum's website : This exhibition will be the first ever devoted exclusively to the impressive and stunningly beautiful work of this little known artist. Giovanni Battista Lusieri was born in Rome in 1754 and died in Athens in 1821. He was active principally as a landscape watercolourist, specializing in broad panoramas and cityscapes, and ancient buildings and monuments. Lusieri was considered by many of his contemporaries to be the most skilful topographical artist of his day and he was greatly admired for his breathtaking ability to render light, texture and mood of ancient sites across the Mediterranean. His career falls neatly into two halves – the Italian period (up to 1799), when he worked in Rome, Naples and Sicily, and the Greek period (1800-1821), when he was employed as Lord Elgin’s resident artist and agent in Athens. He was closely involved in the removal, packing and shipping of the Elgin Marbles. An important group of Lusieri’s works is still in the collection of the Elgin family, and the present Earl is giving the exhibition his full support.
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