# The Waterfalls at Terni [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HACKERT, Jacob Philipp]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 98 x 80 cm ## Commentary Hackert's output shows how his landscapes, which initially suggest the Baroque, become increasingly "classical". However, unlike other contemporaries, who dismissed him in contempt as a "veduta painter" and probably also because he made no secret of his commercial success, Hackert remained faithful to topographic accuracy in his landscapes. This greatly appealed to his buyers who wanted to take their experience of Italy home with them. Nevertheless, The Waterfalls at Terni shows that Hackert could master the heroic landscape, too. The relative sizes of the rocks and trees and the depth of perspective are skillfully blurred so that the waterfall, however large it may be in reality, looks imposing. Paintings like this set a new focus in Neoclassical and Romantic painting in Germany: what we call "'heroic" and later "sentimental" landscape painting. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 28 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/18\_cent/handel\_watermusic.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>George Frideric Handel: Water Music, Suite No. 1</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [Autumn]() - [Great Cascades at Tivoli]() - [Italian Landscape]() - [Italianate Landscape]() - [Lago d'Averno]() - [Landscape with Figures]() - [Landscape with River]() - [Landscape with the Palace of Caserta and Vesuvius]() - [Portrait of a King Charles Spaniel in a Landscape]() - [The Destruction of the Turkish Fleet in Chesme Bay]() - [The Volturno with the Ponte Margherita]() - [View of Caserta]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()