Product Description This is the first book to describe the brilliant career of the most sought-after Venetian history painter in early eighteenth-century Europe. It presents the existing documentation, discusses Pellegrini's major commissions and their patrons, offers an indication of his relationship with othercontemporary painters, and provides a background against which the many smaller canvases can be considered. About the Author George Knox is Professor Emeritus, History of Art, University of British Columbia.