 This elegant and informative volume, inspired by the pioneering 1905 color book Rome, offers a new way of looking at the sights and social history of this much-loved European city.
Every painting from Alberto Pisa’s original book has been reproduced and enlarged for these pages, and each is placed in contemporary context with related images, from period maps and postcards to newspapers and railway tickets, as well as narrative on Rome in the early twentieth century.
Alberto Pisa was born in Ferrara, Italy, in 1864, and studied at Florence Academy. In 1886 he went to study in Paris, and later that year moved to London, where he became friends with John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler. Over the next forty years he exhibited widely and prolifically—in Venice, Bologna, Rome, Florence, and Paris, where he achieved an honorable mention at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. He moved back to Italy in 1920, and died in Florence in 1930.
70 paintings by Alberto Pisa
Written by Richard Bosworth
with Colin Inman and Joie Davidow
Worth Press Ltd, October 2008
270mm x 245mm
176 pages in full colour
£14.99
ISBN 978 1 903025 68 0
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