Venice: A Sketchbook Guide
Matthew Rice is a long-time observer and illustrator of cities, buildings and all those who inhabit them, with an uncanny ability to express the energy of a place through a few lines of ink and splashes of paint. For years, Venice has been a source of deep creative inspiration for him; and now, in Venice: A Sketchbook Guide, he captures the highlights of this most beguiling of Italian cities.
Unsurprisingly, given his abiding passion for architecture, Matthew provides a wealth of information about the 'stones' of Venice, including an illustrated guide to the main building styles of the city — Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Modern — and exemplars of its balconies, bridges and campaniles. Further sections explore the city's sestieri — its six residential quarters — as well as its history, paintings, festivals, wildlife and, not least, its cicchetti and aperitivi.
Following the same landscape format as Matthew's real-life sketchbooks, Venice: A Sketchbook Guide will combine enchanting watercolour illustrations with an informed, personal and witty text, and promises to delight all visitors to Venice, armchair or actual.
- Author
- Matthew Rice
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Particular Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-46483-0
- EAN
- 9780241464830
- Release date
- 2022
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