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Dosso Dossi (1486?-1542): Apollo, Fantasia and Form.
Dosso Dossi, Apollo (c. 1524–1525), oil on canvas, 191 × 116 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome. “Dosso also knew how to add to his interpretations a certain wit, a sense of contrast, a boldness, that has led him to be associated with Ariosto and the Orlando Furioso. But his visions—enchanted and mysterious, dense with necromantic smoke—’are less a…
Giacinto Gigante (1806 to 1876): landscape regenerated from within.
Portrait of Giacinto Gigante, Domenico Morelli (1826–1901), oil on canvas, Museo Nazionale di San Martino, Naples. Born in Naples in July 1806 to Gaetano Gigante and Anna Maria Fatati, Giacinto Gigante grew up in an artistic household. Around 1801, his parents had married and had eight children, four of whom died young. The surviving children…
Anton Sminck Van Pitloo (1790–1837): Between Rome, Naples, and Northern Europe.
Pitloo, portrait by Pieter van Hanselaere (c. 1814). Source: Wikipedia. Even if one were to grant Pitloo only what is evident in his redemption of landscape from the servitude of mannerism and convention, the arts, newly guided toward a beauty drawn from the true, would owe him immense gratitude. But there is more. Pitloo took…
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