Matthew Rice Venice Hardback Book

A guide to the wonders of Venice, conveyed by means of an artists sketchbookMatthew Rice is a longtime 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 citys 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 Matthews reallife 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. | Matthew Rice Venice Hardback Book