Rediscovering Lost Landscapes (eBook)

Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920

Rossano Balzaretti, Pietro Piana, Charles Watkins (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2021
324 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
978-1-80010-297-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Analysis of hundreds of art works from the period provides insights into forgotten landscapes and hidden geographies.After the Napoleonic wars many wealthy British women and men settled along the coast in Liguria and travelled in Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta in search of warmth and health. They established English-speaking colonies of retired clerics, colonial officials, aristocrats and industrialists at places such as Alassio, Bordighera, Sanremo and Portofino. Many were keen artists.This book assesses hundreds of topographical drawings, paintings and photographs of north-west Italy produced by these British visitors and residents in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Through the identification and analysis of these works, scattered today in private and public collections in Italy and Britain, it provides insights into the way Italian landscapes were understood and appreciated. Considered in conjunction with historical photography, maps, archives and fieldwork, they deepen our knowledge of past land management traditions and recover how the contemporary landscape looked. The artists are placed in their intellectual and geographical contexts; and interconnections between British and Italian artists and between topographical art and photography are explored. Different chapters assess the main subjects depicted, including mountains, seascapes, rivers, agriculture, trees and woodland, castles, churches, villages, industries and landscapes of luxury.

Inhalt

Introduction
Identifying views
Landscape history
Environmental change

Chapter 1: Landscape Artists in North West Italy
Women artists
Amateur male artists
Professional male artists
Ruskin and nature drawing
Late nineteenth-century amateurs
From Vedutismo to Realismo
The Scuola Grigia and Scuola di Rivara

Chapter 2: Art and Landscape Photography
Fox Talbot and the idea of natural pictures
Fox Talbot and William Strangways
The spread of photography in Italy
Landscape photography in Liguria

Chapter 3: From the Alps to the Mediterranean
Depicting the Valle d'Aosta
Tourists climbing Monviso
The Maritime Alps and Tenda Pass
Painting and plant collecting
Transhumance landscapes

Chapter 4: 'Coasting prospects' and Marine Painting
Views of the coast from the sea
Working on the beach
Ventimiglia: coastal transformation
Shipbuilding at Varazze

Chapter 5: Villages and Castles: 'exquisite picturesqueness'
Archaeological remains
Castles and forts
Churches and religious landscapes
Creverina: an obscure inland village
Rock villages of the Riviera

Chapter 6: Productive Landscapes
Horticulture
Haymaking
Viticulture
Olive groves and oil
Terraces as productive sites
Productive pines
Chestnut cultivation

Chapter 7: River Landscapes
Spectacular bridges
Impetuous torrents
Mills, papermills and ironworks

Chapter 8: Landscapes of Modernity
Coastal roads and mountain passes
Railways, the telegraph and trams
Industrial landscapes

Chapter 9: Luxurious Landscapes
In search of health on the coast
Cool hills and hydrotheraphy
'In lands of palm'
Luxurious gardens

Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 26 colour; 91 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 170 x 170 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Art History • History of photography • Liguria • rural depopulation • topographical art • Travel writing • viticulture
• ISBN-10: 1-80010-297-6 / 1800102976
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80010-297-2 / 9781800102972