Samuel Cook

View of East Looe Beach and Harbour at Sunset

1851

A beautifully painted en plein air view of "Il ponte dell´Ariccia", Ariccia, and The Alban Hills by Joachim Ludwig Heinrich Daniel Bünsow (Kiel 1821-1910 Ebenda). Oil on paper laid on cardboard. Bünsow received his training at the Royal Danish Art Academy from 1839 to 1848 with Johann Ludwig Lund and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. He then traveled to Dresden, where he joined Johan Christian Dahl's circle. A scholarship from the Copenhagen Academy enabled Bünsow to stay in Rome from 1853 to 1858 which is in the period when this painting was made. While Bünsow's early painterly work was based on the fine-toned and naturalistic style of his teachers, the landscapes he created in Italy were influenced by Louis Gurlitt and were more atmospheric and idealizing. Fredrik Bünsow, the son of his brother, Joachim Johann Friedrich Bünsow, also a painter, became a wellknown industrialist and businessman in Stockholm, Sweden. Included in this post is a photo of the family palace that was built 1886-1888 and an interior photo with some other Bünsow paintings hanging on the walls. This painting has been in the Bunsow family until present day. At the beginning of the 19th century, following some economic development, the local government started pushing the Papal State to make the Appian way safer, faster and more accessible. The only possible solution was to build bridges that would cross the Ariccian valley, the two valleys to reach Galloro and finally the ‘Vallone’ to overcome the slope and leave Colle Pardo behind on the way to Genzano. Therefore, in order to adapt to the difference in altitude, in 1843 Pope Gregorius XVI had a six-arched bridge constructed. In the meanwhile, a new route of the Appian Way was being planned – equipped with two more bridges, the Saint Roch Bridge and another minor one, in addition to the large bridge to be built over the Ariccian ‘Vallone’. Construction did not stop with the Pope's death in 1846, and was completed by his successor Pius IX, who entrusted the Monumental Bridge project to an architect from Marche, Ireneo Aleandri, while the execution of the work was entrusted to Giuseppe Bertolini. Work was completed in 1854 and is one of the most important engineering achievements of the 19th century: set on three orders of arches in elegant neoclassical style inspired by Roman art, the bridge is 59 metres high and 312 metres long. Two travertine columns were erected on both ends to recall the Roman milestones...

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