Venetian Vedita. The images of time

The book about the origin and development of a special landscape genre is leading. Its enormous European popularity was associated with the last heyday of the art of the Venetian Republic in the XVIII century.
Author, doctor of art history V.E. Markov, not only introduces the reader to the outstanding masters of Vedita, but also in a wide historical context reveals the poetry of the masterpieces they created.
Vesita in Italian - view.
An independent genre, a type of landscape depicting urban species, Vesita became in Venice in the 18th century. The city on the lagoon then experienced its last flowering, its masters received orders from the most important and influential people in Europe. So the landscape with a view of Venice was contributing to the creation of a myth of this amazing city, which did not lose its charm today