03 — ARTWORK
Italian Landscape with Ruined Tower
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 76 x 98 cm
- TYPE
- Landscape
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Italian Landscape with Ruined Tower c. 1640 Oil on canvasA woven cloth used as a support for painting. The best-quality canvas is made of linen; other materials used are cotton, hemp, and jute. It is now so familiar a material that the word 'canvas' has become almost a synonym for an oil painting, but it was not until around 1500 that it began to rival the wooden panel (which was more expensive and took longer to prepare) as the standard support for movable paintings (the transition came later in Northern Europe than in Italy). Canvas is not suitable for painting on until it has been coated with a ground, which isolates the fabric from the paint; otherwise it will absorb too much paint, only very rough effects will be obtainable, and parts of the fabric may be rotted by the pigments. It must also be made taut on a stretcher or by some other means., 76 x 98 cm Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna
This landscape, one of the few surviving paintings that Jan Both created in Rome, was painted in the style of Claude Lorrain. Jan Both collaborated with Claude in Rome on a major project for the Spanish King Philip IV, who commissioned twenty-two large landscape paintings to embellish his hunting lodge Buen Retiro in Madrid.
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