Studio: international art (88.1924)

ANTONIO CARBONATI

"CAMPO GOLDONI, VENICE." LITHO-
GRAPH BY ANTONIO CARBONATI

little figures of all kinds, in the streets sets of etchings of Parisian subjects, whose
and houses, which gives these plates an excellence testified to the progress he had
unusual attraction. In addition, they dis- made. Three subsequent series, done for
play a keen and subtle observation, a the Florentine publishers Alinari, con-
masterly power of composition and great firmed his title of " portraitist of cities." a
technical skill. a a a a The first of these, published in 1921,
Baudelaire has commented on the diffi- with six plates and a frontispiece, is
culties underlying the apparent simplicity devoted to Florence, and the second (in
of etching and the constant effort towards my opinion the best series both in corn-
perfection it demands. Carbonati has position and workmanship) to Venice,
always felt this aspiration towards a per- With the lighter and swifter technique of
petual improvement, and so from Rome the crayon he has done also ten other
went to Paris, thinking that the French views, less well known, but no less
metropolis had fresh lessons to teach him. characteristic, for in his hands the litho-
At Paris, where he had a taste of the graph becomes hardly inferior to the
Bohemian life of Montmartre, Carbonati etching. 00000
saw, experienced, and worked a great I believe that Carbonati intends to add
deal, and returned after two-and-a-half to his Venetian work a second album of
years' sojourn with his ideas and powers lithographs devoted to Naples, a a
fully matured. He now executed two new Vittorio Pica.

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