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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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 224
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-241-46483-0
  • EAN
  • 9780241464830
  • Release date
  • 2022