Tag: cityscape

Mortlake Terrace, Early Summer Morning (1826)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Mortlake Terrace: Early Summer Morning 1826 Oil on canvas, 93 x 123.2 cm The Frick Collection, New York This canvas painted for William Moffatt depicts his estate at Mortlake, on the Thames just west of…

Vaprio d’Adda (1744)

Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Vaprio d’Adda 1744 Oil on canvas, 64.1 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York By carefully staging the sunlight hitting the facades rising above the Adda River, Bellotto picks out the north Italian villages of…

Pirna, Obertor dal Sud (mid-1750s)

Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Pirna, Obertor dal Sud (Pirna: The Obertor from the South) mid-1750s Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 78.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Bellotto was Canaletto’s nephew and student who himself was to become an internationally…

Campo di SS Giovanni e Paolo, Venezia (1743-1747)

Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Campo di SS Giovanni e Paolo, Venezia (The Campo di SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice) 1743–1747 Oil on canvas, 70.8 x 111 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Venezia)

La Tempesta (c.1503-1509)

Giorgione (c.1477-1510) La Tempesta (The Tempest) c.1503–1509 Oil on canvas, 73 x 82 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Attested as part of Gabriele Vendramin’s collection by Marcantonio Michiel in 1530 and later in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century family inventories, The Tempest…

Monte Pincio, Rome (1840-1850)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Monte Pincio, Rome 1840–1850 Oil on canvas, 27 x 40.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Pincio | Roma (Italia) | Trinità dei Monti