Tag: Italy
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09 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by Amédée Rosier, Francesco Guardi, John Singer Sargent, Konstantin Ivanovich, Martín Rico y Ortega, OLIVER DENNETT GROVER, THOMAS MORAN, with foot notes. #7
Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth, took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist.…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Edward Pritchett’s A busy Venetian waterway with footnotes. #102
Edward Pritchett (fl. 1828 – 1864) was a nineteenth-century English painter and man of mystery. Nothing is known of Pritchett’s life; he has appropriately been described as “elusive.” He may have lived to 1879. Pritchett spent more than three decades living and working in Venice, producing admirable views of the city; he was one of a group of…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Louis Abel-Truchet’s THE VEGETABLE MARKET IN VENICE, with footnotes. #101
Louis Abel-Truchet, 1857 – 1918, was an important French painter, etcher and lithographer in his lifetime. He was born in 1857 in Versailles. He is predominantly known for his paintings depicting Paris at the turn of the century, with cafés, theatres, shops, everyday life and fashionable Parisians forming an essential part of the subject matter. He…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Giuseppe Borsato’s Grand Canal in Venice, with footnotes. #100
The Grand Canal in Venice, Italy forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. Public transport is provided by water buses and private water taxis, and many tourists explore the canal by gondola. One end of the canal leads into the lagoon near the Santa Lucia railway station and the other end leads into…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Jack Lestrade’s Venice, with footnotes. #99
Jack Lestrade was born in South West France, in Gascony, in 1932 He has always been attracted to traveling to special places to do what he likes the most, painting. Self-taught, he spent five years in Canada and more than forty years in the United States of America. He became well established as an internationally respected…
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02 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by Elizabeth Elkin, with footnotes. #98
Elizabeth Elkin is a renowned professional artist with an international reputation and over thirty years of experience. The true innovation of her work lies in the power of her vibrant colors, her museum quality works of expressionist art. Elizabeth has exhibited her work both locally and internationally for many years. Her works have also been featured…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Brian Kewley’s Piazza San Marco, with footnotes. #96
Piazza San Marco or St. Mark’s Square is the main public square in Venice. The Piazza is located in front of the great Byzantine church known as Basilica di San Marco. This Piazza is surrounded by shops, caffè’s and palazzi on three sides. According to local legend Napoleon called the Piazza San Marco “the drawing room of…
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02 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by Wendy Sharpe, with footnotes. #95
Piazza San Marco or St. Mark’s Square is the main public square in Venice. The Piazza is located in front of the great Byzantine church known as Basilica di San Marco. This Piazza is surrounded by shops, caffè’s and palazzi on three sides. According to local legend Napoleon called the Piazza San Marco “the drawing…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Mike Bernard’s VENETIAN CANAL with footnotes. #93
Mike Bernard (born 1957) is an English painter. His highly textured semi-abstract paintings are often executed in mixed media incorporating collage and acrylics; he also brings an experimental approach to watercolour and oils. Regular subjects include coastal and street scenes in the English West Country and Italy. “What attracts me most is the pattern of buildings, boats…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Mike Bernard’s FLOATING MARKET, with footnotes. #92
A floating market is a market where goods are sold from boats. Originating in times and places where water transport played an important role in daily life, most floating markets operating today mainly serve as tourist attractions.Mike Bernard (born 1957) is an English painter. His highly textured semi-abstract paintings are often executed in mixed media incorporating…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Rudolf Ritter von Alt’s Canal in Venice, with footnotes. #90
Rudolf Ritter von Alt (28 August 1812 – 12 March 1905) was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. Born as Rudolf Alt, he could call himself von Alt and held the title of a Ritter (knight) after he gained nobility in 1889. Born in Vienna, he studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. Hiking-trips…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice. Henry Martin Gasser’s The Supply Boat , with footnotes. #89
Henry Martin Gasser, American (1909 – 1981)was born in Newark, New Jersey. He lived, studied and worked in New Jersey for his entire life. A Master at watercolor and oil his work consisted of, in his own words, “everyday subjects that are available to most of us-street scenes, back yards, trees, old houses, etc I…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon’s Zattere, Venice , with footnotes. #88
The Zattere was built in 1519 and first used as a landing dock for the delivery of timber used to construct ships and buildings, which gave the quay the name Zattere, Italian for raft. The timber gone, the Zattere today is a spacious promenade that runs along the entire southern shore of Venice’s Dorsoduro District, from…
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02 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by John Bratby, with footnotes. #87
John Randall Bratby, (born July 19, 1928, Wimbledon, Surrey. — died July 20, 1992, Hastings, East Sussex), was a British painter who rose to prominence in the 1950s as a member of the Kitchen Sink School, a group of British social-realist artists who paralleled the literary Angry Young Men of the decade. Although he was accepted at…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Epaminondas Thomopoulos’ Venice, with footnotes. #86
Epameinondas Thomopoulos (1878 – January 4, 1976) went as a boarder to school at the Institute of Kapodistrias in Corfu from 1892 to 1895. In 1896 he went to Naples where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts until 1899. He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome from 1899 to…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, MARTÍN RICO Y ORTEGA, RIO DI SAN BARNABA, with footnotes. #85
A native of Spain, Martín Rico y Ortega was captivated by Venice and dedicated his oeuvre to recording its architecture, people and daily life. This work, set on the Rio di San Barnaba, features the Chiesa di San Barnaba in the foreground with Santa Maria dei Carmini beyond. More on this painting The Chiesa di San…
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01 PAINTING OF THE CANALS OF VENICE BY GIULIO TURCATO, WITH FOOTNOTES. #83
Giulio Turcato (16 March 1912 in Mantua – 22 January 1995 in Rome) was an Italian artist, belonging to both figurative and abstract expressionist currents. Turcato left Mantua and attended the Venice Academy’s school of nude studies in the early 1930s before moving to Milan and finding work in the firm of the architect Giovanni Muzio…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with footnotes. #84
Rhoda Holmes Nicholls (March 28, 1854 – September 7, 1930) was an English-American watercolor and oil painter, born in Coventry, England. She studied art in England and Italy, and her work was viewed and praised at the time by the queens of both countries. A body of work was created in South Africa by Nicholls…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with footnotes. #81
Moran was especially fond of using Venice as a theme, particularly because its large areas of expressive sky and reflective water were well suited to his interest in creating luminous effects. He wove references to activities along the city’s waterways into his compositions, along with buildings, pilings, boats and their reflections. It seems significant to…
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