Corot in Italy: Open-Air Painting and the Classical-Landscape Tradition

In addition to offering the first critical study of Camille Corot`s magnificent Italian landscapes, Corot in Italy is also the first book to establish the coherence and significance of early outdoor painting in Italy. Generously illustrated with scores of beautiful paintings unfamiliar even to experts, Peter Galassi`s thorough examination of a brilliant episode in the work of a great painter is also a provocative contribution to the study of nineteenth-century painting.