Introduction to Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals w/David Gariff
Dr. David Gariff is an art historian and lecturer in the Education Division at the National Gallery of Art
This introduction to Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals is reserved for members and their guests.
Our meeting place is the main floor information desk in the East Building where we will meet Dr. Gariff.
Venice inspired a school of competitive view painters whose achievements are among the most brilliant in 18th-century art. The exhibition celebrates the rich variety of these Venetian views, known as vedute, through some 20 masterworks by Canaletto and more than 30 by his rivals, including Michele Marieschi, Francesco Guardi, and Bernardo Bellotto. Responding to an art market fueled largely by the Grand Tour, these gifted painters depicted the famous monuments and vistas of Venice in different moods and seasons.
Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the National Gallery, London.
Dr. David Gariff is an art historian and lecturer in the Education Division at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. He is also an adjunct faculty member in art history at The Catholic University of America. David is a specialist in modern and contemporary art and the art of the Italian Renaissance. He has taught art history at Cleveland State University, Trinity University (Washington, D.C.), and the University of Maryland, College Park, where he received his Ph.D. David was a graduate fellow in Italy at the University of Florence and the University of Pisa, and a Fulbright and Kress Foundation fellow at the Institute for the History of Lombard Art in Milan.
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