03 — ARTWORK
Classical Landscape
BLOEMEN, Jan Frans van · 1729 →
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 81 x 137 cm
- TYPE
- Landscape
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This painting shows a wooded classicalRelating to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome (classical Antiquity). The classical world played a profoundly important role in the Renaissance, with Italian scholars, writers, and artists seeing their own period as the rebirth (the "renaissance") of classical values after the Middle Ages. The classical world was considered the golden age for the arts, literature, philosophy, and politics. Concepts of the classical, however, changed greatly from one period to the next. Roman literature provided the starting point in the 14th century, scholars patiently finding, editing and translating a wide range of texts. In the 15th century Greek literature, philosophy and art - together with the close study of the remains of Roman buildings and sculptures-expanded the concept of the classical and ensured it remained a vital source of ideas and inspiration. landscape with two figures on a path by a Sphinx, a river and a fortified hill town beyond.
Jan Frans van Bloemen spent most of his active career spanning nearly sixty years in Rome. The prime inspiration for his art is to be found in the work of Gaspar Dughet from whose classicising style he derived many of his notions of colour, composition and technique. His style during his long maturity developed only in the increasing lightness of his palette, towards the innovations of Pannini, Locatelli and Anesi. His subject matter is largely consistent, and typified by the present painting.
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