Veduta
A veduta (Italian for 'view'; pl.: vedute) is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of vedute are referred to as vedutisti.
Origins
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18th century
As the itinerary of the Grand Tour became somewhat standardized, vedute of familiar scenes like the Roman Forum or the Grand Canal recalled early ventures to the Continent for aristocratic Englishmen. By the mid-18th century, Venice became renowned as the centre of the vedutisti. The genre was pioneered by Luca Carlevarijs, and its greatest practitioners belonged to the Canal and Guardi families of Venice. Some of them went to work as painters in major capitals of Europe, e.g., Canaletto in London and his nephew Bernardo Bellotto in Dresden and Warsaw.
In other parts of 18th-century Italy, idiosyncratic varieties of the genre evolved.
In later developments of the vedute, Pannini's veduta morphed into the scenes partly or completely imaginary elements, known as
19th century
In the later 19th century, more personal "impressions" of cityscapes replaced the desire for topographical accuracy, which was satisfied instead by painted, and later photographed,
Demand for Federico del Campo's views, particularly from English tourists, was so strong that he painted several views multiple times,[5] and the same can be said of Reyna Manescau, that repeated the same urban landscapes in many occasions with minimal variations.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Lieven Cruyl's veduti (or city views)
- ^ a b Rudolf Wittkower, Art and architecture in Italy: 1600-1750, Penguin Books, 1980, p. 501
- Joseph J. Rishel, Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, p. 236-237
- ^ Christine van Mulders and Alain Jacobs. "Bloemen, van." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 5 Dec. 2014
- ^ Federico del Campo, Peruvian, Gondolas by the Doge's Palace, Venice at Sotheby's
- ^ "Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga". www.carmenthyssenmalaga.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-11-20.
Further reading
- Salerno, Luigi. (1991) I pittori di *Canaletto, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has material on Canaletto's contributions to the genre
External links
- Media related to Veduta at Wikimedia Commons