Monet and Venice.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Monet, Claude, 1840-1926, artist.

Pasternak, Anne, 1964- writer of foreword.

Campbell, Thomas P. (Thomas Patrick), 1962- writer of foreword.

Brooklyn Museum, host institution.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monet, Claude, 1840-1926--Exhibitions.

Monet, Claude.

Monet, Claude, 1840-1926--Criticism and interpretation.

Impressionism (Art)--Exhibitions.

Impressionism (Art).

Venice (Italy)--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Venice (Italy).

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Pictorial works.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

263 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Rizzoli Electa : Brooklyn Museum ; San Francisco : Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, [2025]

Summary:

"In a significant traveling exhibition, many of Claude Monet's radiant and evocative Venice paintings are to be reunited for the first time in over a century. Monet's Venice paintings are high points in his lifelong engagement with the interplay of water and light. Monet and Venice--anchored by two masterworks from the collections of Brooklyn and San Francisco, The Doge's Palace and The Grand Canal, Venice--will be the first exhibition and English-language publication dedicated to this significant suite of paintings since their Parisian debut at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in 1912. Monet keenly felt the burden of influence in a city that had so often been depicted and had long been an icon of waning, fragile beauty. Venice was--and is--a place where culture and nature are profoundly and uniquely entangled. Monet's images of Venice's buildings and canals dissolved in colorful mist and hazy light may be seen as meditations on human aesthetic interaction with a natural environment built upon for centuries. These tonally unifying atmospheres--which he referred to as the enveloppe--reveal Monet's essentially ecological understanding of the world in which he immersed himself. Air, light, water, and stone emerge together from a matrix of bold brushwork; buildings, reflections, and space are interconnected in luminous paintings that reinscribed and transformed the centuries-old Venetian landscape tradition. Including lush reproductions, newly commissioned texts, and maps of the artist's views, this book is an essential addition to any Monet lover's library"--Publisher website.

Contents:

"I Will Not Go To Venice". "Too Beautiful to Be Painted": Monet and the Allure of Venice / Melissa Buron ; Monet in Venice: Anxiety and Enchantment / Lisa Small

Monet's Venice. Venice in the era of Monet / Elena Marchetti ; Monet's Venetian Hours / André Dombrowski ; "A Rose Veil": Air Quality and Counter-tourism in Monet's Venetian paintings / Jonathan P. Ribner ; Behind One Dealer Lies Another, and a Show: Exhibiting the Venice Paintings / Félicie Faizand de Maupeou

Visions and variations. Visions of Venice: Between Paris and London / Donato Esposito ; Variations on Venice: The cultured, the captivated, and the contrary, c. 1880-1910 / Richard Thomson ; "No One Has Ever Given the Idea of Venice": Monet's Predecessors and Contemporaries / Lisa Small ; Between Observer and Observed: Monet, Venice, and the Musical Gaze / Niles Luther.

Notes:

Catalog of the exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum, October 11, 2025-February 1, 2026, and the de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, March 21, 2026-July 26, 2026.

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 260-263).

ISBN:

9780847875962

0847875962

OCLC:

1509167231

Publisher Number:

CIPO000285744