John Singer Sargent. Volume VI . Venetian Figures and Landscapes,

Throughout his career - and particularly in the period from 1898 to 1913 - John Singer Sargent painted the spectacular architecture and scenes of everyday life in Venice, as he sat alongside the Grand Canal or in a gondola in the sleepy side canals. This lavishly illustrated book presents all the luminous masterworks that Sargent completed during that fertile fifteen-year period: oils and watercolours that reveal his taste for the Renaissance, Baroque, and high style in art and architecture as they were seen in the city´s unique light.The book reproduces and documents 141 works, including several that are published for the first time. An authoritative essay explores the aesthetics of Sargent´s Venetian work, places it in the context of his oeuvre as a whole, explains Sargent´s relationships with his patrons in Venice, and discusses the exhibitions and marketing of this work in London and New York. The book also provides a map of Venice marking every known location that Sargent painted and displays dozens of contemporary colour photographs of the sites.