Art History Today

Glasgow Art School on Fire…again

Just several years after Mackintosh’s School of Art caught fire, and was repaired, it catches fire again.

As this photo from the Guardian shows, the damage is even worse than the first blaze!

Cracking the Van Eyck code

From the Guardian.

Very Dan Brownish!

Guercino at Sotheby’s Drawing Sale

Coming up at Sotheby's, a nice drawing by the baroque master Guercino. Amazing that such a name has a low price (£15,000) compared to, for example,  Parmigianino starting at £60, 000.

But forget about the money- and just enjoy this lovely allegory which is obviously connected to the more famous work in Rome reproduced above.

Click on the link for the drawing

The View Painter & the Eighteenth Century. Slides

Slides.

1. Luca Carlevaris, Piazza San Marco, Venice, c. 1709, oil on canvas, 50.5×120 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

2. Modern photograph of tourists in San Marco.

3. Vanvitelli, View of Naples, 1700-10, oil on panel, 45×98 cm, Private collection.

4. William Marlow, View of the Bay of Naples from Posillipo, 1777-79, oil on canvas, 65×100 cm, Private collection.

5. Luca Carlevaris, The Bacino, Venice, with the Dogana and a Distant View of the Isola di San Giorgio, c. 1709, oil on canvas, 50.8×119.7 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

6. Luca Carlevaris, The Piazzetta and the Library, 1720s, oil on canvas, 46×39 cm, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

7. Giovanni Pannini, Capriccio of Classical Ruins, 1725-30, oil on canvas, 123×132 cm, Private collection.

8. Hubert Robert, Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie in the Louvre in Ruins, 1796, oil on canvas, 114.5×146 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

9. Giovanni Pannini, Interior View of the Pantheon, Rome, 1732, oil on canvas, 119×98 cm, Private collection.

10. Giovanni Pannani, Roma Antica, 1756-57, oil on canvas, 169×227 cm, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.

11. Detail.

12. Giovanni Pannini, Piazza Navona in Rome, 1729, oil on canvas, 107×248 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

13. Allesandro Longhi, Portrait of Carlo Lodoli, 1760s, oil on canvas, location unknown.

14. Antonio Visentini (after G.B. Piazzetta), Portrait of Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, before 1735, engraving, Royal Collection, Windsor.

15. Photograph of the Gesuati, Venice, 2010.

16. G.B. Tiepolo, ceiling frescoes, 1737-39, fresco, Santa Maria del Rosario (Gesuati), Venice.

17. G.B. Tiepolo, The Institution of the Rosary, 1737-39, Santa Maria del Rosario (Gesuati), fresco, 1200×450 cm, Venice.

18. G.B. Tiepolo, The Judgement of Solomon, 1726-29, fresco, 360 x 655 cm, Palazzo Patriarcale, Udine.

19. G.B. Tiepolo, The Banquet of Cleopatra, 1743-44, oil on canvas, 249×346 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

20. Canaletto, The Stonemason’s Yard, 1726-30, National Gallery, London, oil on canvas, 124×163 cm.¹

21. Details.

22. Canaletto, Capriccio: The Horses of San Marco in the Piazzetta, 1743, oil on canvas, 108×129.5 cm, Royal Collection, Windsor.

23. Canaletto, Piazza San Marco: Looking East Across the Central Line, late 1720s, oil on canvas, 68.6×112.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.²

24. Canaletto, The Piazzetta, looking towards the Torre dell’ Orologia, 1726-8, Royal Collection, oil on canvas, 172.1 134.9 cm.³

25. Canaletto, The Piazzetta, looking towards the Torre dell’ Orologia, 1726-7, pen and brownish black ink over pencil, 25.4×18 cm, Royal Collection.

26. Francesco Guardi, The Torre dell' Orologio, 1770-75, oil on canvas, 63×90 cm, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna.

27. Detail.

28. Marco Ricci, Rehearsal of an Opera showing the competition between the divas Catherine Tofts and Margherita de L'Epine, 1709, oil on canvas, Yale Centre for British Art.

29. Antonio Visentino, Architectural Fantasy, 1764-72, oil on canvas, 130×92 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.⁴

30. Canaletto, The Grand Canal from Campo San Vio towards the Bacino, 1729-34, oil on canvas, 46×77.5 cm, Royal Collection.⁵

31. Canaletto, The Grand Canal with the Scalzi and S. Simeone Piccolo, oil on canvas, 1730s, oil on canvas, 124.5×204.6 cm, National Gallery, London.⁶

32. Antonio Visentino, Album, plate 11: view of the Grand Canal from the Carmelitani Scalzi to the Tintore Molin, pen and brown ink.

33. Photograph of the Scalzi Church on the Grand Canal, DP, 2010.

34. Piazzetta (?), Design for the frontispiece of an album with bust portraits of Canaletto and Visentini in ovals set into an elaborate frame, 1735-42, pen and brown ink, British Museum, London.

35. Francesco Guardi, Night-time Procession in Piazza San Marco, 1758, oil on canvas, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

36. Francesco Guardi, The Giudecca Canal with the Zattere, c. 1759, oil on canvas, 72 x 120 cm, Private collection.

37. Francesco Guardi, San Giorgio Maggiore, 1759, oil on canvas, 19.5 x 16.5 cm, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.

38. Francesca Guardi, View of the Giudecca Canal and the Zattere, c. 1757-8, oil on canvas, 71.3 x 119 cm, Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection on loan at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.

39. Palazzo Dolfin, now part of University of Venice.

40. Michele Marieschi, The Grand Canal with the Palazzo Labia and Entry to the Cannareggio, c. 1742, oil on canvas, 55 x 84 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin.

41. Michele Marieschi, The Rialto Bridge from the Riva del Vin, 1740s, oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 130 x 196 cm, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

42. Francesco Guardi, The Meeting of Pope Pius VI and Doge Paolo Renier at San Giorgio in Alga, 1782, oil on canvas, 51×67 cm, Private Collection.

43. Francesco Guardi, Doge Alvise IV Mocenigo in the Corpus Christi Procession in Piazza San Marco, c. 1775, oil on canvas, 67×98 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

44. Francesco Guardi, Venice: San Giorgio Maggiore, c. 1775, oil on canvas, 70 x 93 cm, Wallace Collection, London.

45. Giovanni Paolo Panini, St Peter’s Square with the Departure of the Duc de Choiseul, 1756, oil on canvas, 152×195 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

46. Detail.

47. Luca Carlevaris, The Reception of Cardinal César d'Estrées, 1701, oil on canvas, 130×260 cm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

48. Detail.

49. Pompeo Batoni, Triumph of Venice, 1737, oil on canvas, 174.3×286.1 cm, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.⁷

50. G.B. Tiepolo, Neptune paying Homage to Venice, Ducal Palace, 1740s, oil on canvas, Palazzo Ducale, Venice.

51. Details.

52. Francesco Zuccarelli, Landscape with Cattle & Figures, about 1750-70, oil on canvas, 92.7 x 132.4 cm, National Gallery, London.

53. Guiseppe Zais, Landscape with a Group of Figures Fishing, 1770-80, oil on canvas, 49 x 65.5 cm, National Gallery, London.

54. Domenico Tiepolo, Peasants at Rest, 1757, fresco, Villa Valmarana, Vicenza, Fresco.

55. Domenico Tiepolo, Family Meal, 1757, fresco, Villa Valmarana, Vicenza.

56. G.B. Tiepolo, The Rape of Europa, c. 1725, oil on canvas, 99×134 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.⁸

57. Titian, The Rape of Europa, 1559-62, oil on canvas, 185 x 205 cm, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

58. G.B. Tiepolo, Apollo and Marsyas, c. 1725, oil on canvas, 100×135 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.⁹

59. G.B. Tiepolo, Glorification of the Pisani Family, 1761-62, fresco, 2350×1350 cm, Villa Pisani, Stra.

60. Details.

61. Antonio Joli, Arrival of Charles III in Naples, oil on canvas, 128×205 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid.

62. Antonio Joli, The Royal Procession to the Church of Santa Maria di Piedigrotta, c. 1770, oil on canvas, 55×97 cm, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples.

63. Antonio Joli, View of London, 1743-50, oil on canvas, 151×278 cm, Private collection.

1Canaletto, New York, 1989, no. 32.

2Ibid, 1989, no. 27.

3Canaletto, London, 1981, no. 1: Canaletto, New York, 1989, no. 28.

4Accademia Guide, no. 308. Exh 1777, influenced by Panini; Acq 1807 fr Old Academy of Venice.

5Canaletto, London, 1981, no. 11.

6Beq. By Lord Farnborough, 1838.

7Haskell, “The Taste for Canaletto” in MMA,. In Haskell’s words: “[the difference] from the bold, fresh, dramatic touch of his earlier works to his later more mannered, dry, calligraphic bland manner..”

8Jacob Bean, William M. Griswold 18th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, cat. no. 261, fig. no. 261, pp. 262-63, ill. See also Linda Wolk-Simon "Domenico Tiepolo. Drawings, Prints, and Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art." the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 54, no. 3, New York, Winter 1996-1997, fig. no. 80, p. 53, il

9Bean and Griswold 18th Century Italian Drawings, cat. no. 156.