The Crusaders marched quickly down the Mediterranean coast, then turned inland to the Holy City, which they put under siege.
Guardi
The mental images which we perceive are created in the brain, which has some fixed ideas about how to do that. They’re not the same as optical laws used in cameras and related devices.
His rough and gestural style turned his dark tales into the stuff of nightmares.
We should add these Masters to the growing list of those with ‘painterly’ style, and consider whether Impressionism was a development of Venetian ‘colorito’ painting?
An innovator with his painterly style, some have suggested that he was even Impressionist – a whole century before Monet.
Looser and more painterly styles from Guardi around 1775 to Delacroix in 1862: paving the way for the Impressionists.
Study 25 landscapes by 19 artists over 400 years, to examine how they represent the landscape.
