Les Orientalistes de l'Ecole italienne (PocheCouleur N° 7) (French Edition)

Since the end of the 18th century, Italy has produced an important number of Orientalist painters. There have been great masters such as Francesco Hayez, Alberto Pasini, Mariano Fortuny and Giulio Rosati. And specialists in the treatment of exotic themes.
Within this volume, over one hundred artists linked to the Italian Orientalist school are illustrated in monographs. Filippo Bartolini, Francesco Cananova, Antonio Maria Fabrés y Costa, Amadeo Preziosi, Fausto Zonaro and many others are presented.
Their works bear witness to their fertile imagination. Some recreated images brought back from travels throughout North Africa and the Middle-East. Strangely, first hand accounts and products of the imagination projections are not far removed...