Description: A visual journey through five centuries of the city known as "La Serenissima"--a unique and compelling story for both lovers of Venice and lovers of its art.
Brief description: Martin Gayford is a writer and art critic. He is the author of acclaimed books on Van Gogh, Constable, and Michelangelo. His books include My Heart Is This: Tracey Emin on Painting, How Painting Happens (and why it matters), Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait with Lucian Freud, Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney, and the London Painters, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney, Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy (with David Hockney), Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939-1954 (with David Dawson), and Venice: City of Pictures.
Review Quotes: [A] tour de force saga of the lives of Venetian painters and of visiting artists . . . Gayford is a marvelous writer.-- "Art Eyewitness"