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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... described the kind of palaces where in former days the paintings of his admired master hung . Those palaces of yesteryear were furnished with an excessive luxury that is scarcely imaginable today , huge room after vast room blinding you ...
... described the kind of palaces where in former days the paintings of his admired master hung . Those palaces of yesteryear were furnished with an excessive luxury that is scarcely imaginable today , huge room after vast room blinding you ...
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... described them in a particularly illuminating way with the word ' idyll . She applies the term to all three phases that are often distinguished in this group . For Poelenburch and Breenbergh one may speak of the classical idyll . This ...
... described them in a particularly illuminating way with the word ' idyll . She applies the term to all three phases that are often distinguished in this group . For Poelenburch and Breenbergh one may speak of the classical idyll . This ...
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... described how Cimabue's Madonna was carried in procession from his studio to her place in the church of Santa Maria Novella , where she was set in the Rucellai Chapel . - For German painters in Rome , Vasari's story held a particular ...
... described how Cimabue's Madonna was carried in procession from his studio to her place in the church of Santa Maria Novella , where she was set in the Rucellai Chapel . - For German painters in Rome , Vasari's story held a particular ...
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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