Antique Oil Painting Palladium Ruins 19th Century

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Antique Oil Painting Palladium Ruins 19th Century

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This is a very impressive antique oil painting C 1890 in date, by a follower of Claude Lorrain. The painting depicts a Palladian landscape scene with classical ruins. People in this painting are secondary and almost unimportant. Lorrain regarded them only as a means of lending animation to his landscapes and as a rule he did not even paint them himself. This large painting has the original beautiful gilded frame. Condition: In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation of condition. Dimensions in cm: Height 47 x Width 59.5 - Painting Height 63 x Width 76 x Depth 9 - Frame Dimensions in inches: Height 18.5 x Width 23.4 - Painting Height 24.8 x Width 29.9 x Depth 3.5 - Frame Claude Lorrain born Claude Gellée, dit le Lorrain; traditionally just Claude in English; ( 1600 –1682 )was a French pain ter, draughtsman and engraver of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is admired for his achievements in landscape painting. Palladian architecture - is a European style of architecture derived from and inspired by the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). The term "Palladian" normally refers to buildings in a style inspired by Palladio's own work; that which is recognised as Palladian architecture today is an evolution of Palladio's original concepts. Palladio's work was strongly based on the symmetry, perspective and values of the formal classical temple architecture of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. From the 17th century Palladio's interpretation of this classical architecture was adapted as the style known as Palladianism. It continued to develop until the end of the 18th century. Palladianism became popular briefly in Britain during the mid-17th century, but its flowering was cut short by the onset of the Civil War and the imposition of austerity which followed. In the early 18th century it returned to fashion, not only in England but also, directly influenced from Britain, in Prussia. Count Francesco Algarotti may have written to Burlington from Berlin that he was recommending to Frederick the Great the adoption in Prussia of the architectural style Burlington had introduced in England but Knobelsdorff's opera house on the Unter den Linden, based on Campbell's Wanstead House, had been constructed from 1741. The style continued to be popular in Europe throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, where it was frequently employed in the design of public and municipal buildings. From the latter half of the 19th century it was rivalled by the Gothic revival, whose champions, such as Augustus Pugin, remembering the origins of Palladianism in ancient temples, deemed it too pagan for Protestant and Anglo-Catholic worship. However, as an architectural style it has continued to be popular and to evolve; its pediments, symmetry and proportions are clearly evident in the design of many modern buildings today. Buildings entirely designed by Palladio are all in Venice and the Veneto, with an especially rich grouping of palazzi in Vicenza, vaunted now in guidebooks as Palladio's City. They include villas, and churches such as Redentore in Venice. In Palladio's architectural treatises he followed the principles defined by the Roman architect Vitruvius and his 15th-century disciple Leon Battista Alberti, who adhered to principles of classical Roman architecture based on mathematical proportions rather than the rich ornamental style also characteristic of the Renaissance.

Dimensions:
Height: 18.51 in (47 cm)
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
19th Century
Date of Manufacture:
c. 1890
Condition:
In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation of condition.
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: 053901stDibs: LU95061014462