Dreaming of ItalyRoyal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, 2006 - 128 pagini This book is about the love West European artists have felt for centuries for Italy - the land of light, warmth, art and culture. By means of fifty small master works by, among others, Maarten van Heemskerck, Claude Lorrain, Poussin, Corot, Turner and Feuerbach, Henk van Os outlines for the first time the artistic development that occurred as a result of this dreaming about Italy. The book begins with the 16th century, when artists wanted to study and document the remains of Italy's ancient civilisation. Later, their 17th-century successors acquired an eye for the beauty of the landscape and the golden glow of the Italian sun. With their idealised landscapes, these artists set the tone for a long time to come. Painting outdoors, which became fashionable in Rome, led around 1800 to new visions about the country. There was growing attention for the people and their obvious religious convictions. Italy became a place of perfect harmony.. |
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... Venice ! The Italians are such agreeable people . I grow to like them more each day . It is really heart - warming how companionable they are . They are intelligent , well - educated , good lutanists and flautists , are knowledgeable ...
... Venice ! The Italians are such agreeable people . I grow to like them more each day . It is really heart - warming how companionable they are . They are intelligent , well - educated , good lutanists and flautists , are knowledgeable ...
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... Venice . While on his journeys he made a pretty penny selling his paintings . In Venice he decided to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land . He evidently made numerous drawings on this trip , but alas , these have all been lost . He ...
... Venice . While on his journeys he made a pretty penny selling his paintings . In Venice he decided to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land . He evidently made numerous drawings on this trip , but alas , these have all been lost . He ...
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... Venice . Indeed , his paintings of cityscapes had much the same function as a picture postcard - which you buy on holiday , not to send to friends , but to keep for yourself . • · Van Wittel's paintings are meticulously drawn , with a ...
... Venice . Indeed , his paintings of cityscapes had much the same function as a picture postcard - which you buy on holiday , not to send to friends , but to keep for yourself . • · Van Wittel's paintings are meticulously drawn , with a ...
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ancient Anselm Feuerbach architectural Arnold Böcklin Art Gallery art historian Asselijn Bartholomeus Breenbergh Bracciano capriccio Carl Blechen Cat.no cityscape classical Claude Joseph Vernet Claude Lorrain composition contrast Cornelis van Poelenburch Corot depicting Deutsch-Römer drawing dream of Italy Dürer Dutch Eckersberg exhibition figures Fohr foreground French Gerard ter Borch German Goltzius Grand Tour Haarlem Hague Hendrick Goltzius hermit ideal landscape Ingres inspired Iphigenia Italian landscape Jan Gossaert Joseph Anton Koch journey Karel van Mander klassische Land Kunst landscape painting Leighton Lingelbach London longing for Italy Maarten van Heemskerk Mauritshuis monuments motif Naples National Gallery nature Nazarenes Netherlands Nicolas Poussin nineteenth century Northern Netherlandish oil sketches painter palaces Paris Paul Bril Picture Gallery Mauritshuis piece plein-air painting Ponte Molle pope Private collection religious Roman Rome Royal Picture Gallery ruins scene Sehnsucht showing sublime Sweerts Tivoli tradition Turner Utrecht Vasari's Venice View viewer Villa Waetzoldt Winterthur Wittel