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The Bay of Naples. Auguste Renoir French. 1881. Not on view. The corner of the balcony visible at lower left in this composition indicates Renoir’s vantage point overlooking the bay of Naples. His position afforded an iconic view of the harbor with the volcano Mount Vesuvius in the background, wafting smoke into the sky.
- La Bella Napoli
- Painting The Grand Tour
- Neapolitan Gouache
- Ignasi X Issimo X Dedar
Those who have spent a bit of time in Naples know that every self-effacing Neapolitan nonna has a reproduction of the classic Gulf of Naples gouachein her dining room. You know the one the dramatic rise of Mt. Vesuvius standing forebodingly in the background, the sun-kissed Mediterranean sea hugging up against the distant city landscape of Naples, ...
A little kitsch, never cliché, the Neapolitan gouaches can be traced back to 18th and 19th centuries when the opaque watercolour depictions of coastal Naples were a hot commodity for European aristocrats who traveled to the Mediterranean city to experience cultural, artistic and architectural pleasures. This was the epoch known as the Grand Tour, w...
The 19th century engraver and painter Filippo Hackert is considered the father of the Neapolitan gouaches. Invited by Ferdinand IV of Bourbon, Hackert taught Johann Wolfgang von Goethe how to paint, while the author penned his famous diary Viaggio in Italia. Hackert was using gouache, an opaque watercolour made of natural pigment, water, a binding ...
Fast forward two hundred years and Neapolitan gouaches are making a contemporary comeback, thanks to a fresh collaboration between ISSIMO, famed Italian interior design brand, Dedar Milano and one of the world’s most talented emerging artists, Ignasi Monreal. How did this glamorous ménage-à-trois come about one asks? It all began at an old print st...
Sir William Hamilton, British envoy to the court of Naples from 1764 to 1800, wanted a painting of the panoramic view of the Bay of Naples from his apartment window. He sought out the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Lusieri, whose detailed drawings and watercolors of views of Naples and other Italian sites were popular with Grand Tourists in ...
The ‘new Pompeii’ — an attempt to by-pass the four styles and look at social history — was born (at any rate in monograph form and in English) when Andrew Wallace-Hadrill brought together his papers of the late 1980s on social life in the domestic sphere on the Bay of Naples, 4 drawing especially on a significant paper by Paul Zanker ...
- Jas' Elsner
Title: A View of the Bay of Naples, Looking Southwest from the Pizzofalcone Toward Capo di Posilippo; Creator Lifespan: 1755/1821; Creator Nationality: Italian; Date...
May 10, 2022 · An 1881 oil on canvas, The Bay of Naples with Vesuvius, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. The artist was greatly impressed with the landscape and art of Italy and brightened his pallette as a result of his tour of the country in 1881. (Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, U.S.A)
Around 1892, Renoir developed rheumatoid arthritis. In 1907, he moved to the warmer climate of "Les Collettes," a farm at the village of Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, close to the Mediterranean coast. Renoir painted during the last twenty years of his life even after his arthritis severely limited his mobility.
