Umberto Ongania, (Italian, born 1875 - 1942)
A Regatta on the Grand Canal, Venice
Oil on canvas
28 x 36cm (11 x 14 3/16in
Private collection
On the first Sunday of September takes place the Historical Regatta ("Regata Storica"), a competition between Venetian boats watched by thousands of people from the banks or from floating stands. Competitions are preceded by a historical procession ("Corteo Storico") remembering the entrance of the Queen of Cyprus Catherine Cornaro after abdication in 1489: gondoliers in costumes sail in typical 16th century boats following the Bucentaur, doge's state galley. More on the Regatta
Umberto Ongania (Venice 1867-1942) was an Italian painter, mainly of vedute of his native city. He painted both watercolors and oils. He exhibited in 1887 at Venice, La Porta della Carta, and in 1888 at Bologna, Il Palazzo Ducale di Venezia. He continued to paint until the first decades of the twentieth century.
He was one of the many illustrators who collaborated in the illustration of a book on the Basilica of San Marco, with text by Camillo Boito. More on Umberto Ongania
Marc Aldine, (French, 1870-1956)
La Riva Degli Schiavoni - Venice
Oil on canvas
38.1 x 55.9cm (15 x 22in).
Private collection
The Riva degli Schiavoni is a waterfront in Venice, Italy. There is a lively - albeit often overcrowded - promenade along the waterfront. It sits on St. Mark's Basin. It was originally built in the ninth century from dredged silt and was named for the Slavic men who brought cargo to Venice from across the Adriatic Sea. More on Riva degli Schiavoni
ANDRE BOUVARD dit MARC ALDINE, (1875-1957). Antoine Bouvard Senior, also known as Marc Aldine was
born at St. Jean-de-Bournay in L'Isere. He trained as an architect and studied
art and architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He became the
Director of Architectural Services for the Seine, and was responsible for the
construction of the Bourse du Travail and the Boulevard Morland in Paris.
His paintings show the influence of Felix Ziem, reflecting
his love of Venice in the delicacy and fluidity of his use of colour, capturing
in his paintings, the warmth and beauty that he found there. Known as a painter
of Venetian subjects, he worked during the early part of the 20th century,
becoming one of the most prolific painters of Venetian genre from this period.
Bouvard’s works are broad and confidently painted, capturing all the atmosphere
and charm of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. He exhibited
throughout France and Italy as well as in many provincial European galleries
during his own lifetime. His popularity has continued to the present day,
placing him amongst the most recognized and respected painters of Venetian
subjects. More on Marc
Aldine
Antoine Bouvard, (French, 1870-1956)
Looking towards the Grand Canal, Venice
Oil on canvas
65.5 x 92.5cm (25 13/16 x 36 7/16in
Private collection
The Grand Canal in Venice, Italy forms one
of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. Public transport is provided
by water buses and private water taxis, and many tourists explore the canal by
gondola.
One end of the canal leads into the lagoon near
the Santa Lucia railway station and the other end leads into Saint Mark Basin;
in between, it makes a large reverse-S shape through the central districts of
Venice. More
Grand Canal
Antoine Bouvard, St. Jean-de-Bournay, 1870 -
1956 was a French
landscape painter. He studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris
under Constant-Dufeus and became director of a. government agency of
architecture. In his paintings he specialized in views of Venice. More on Antoine Bouvard
Guglielmo Ciardi, (1842 - 1917)
Canal in Venice
oil on canvas
57.5 by 101cm., 22½ by 40in.
Private collection
Guglielmo Ciardi (13 September 1842 – 5 October
1917) was an Italian
painter. He was born in
Venice, the son of an official of the Austrian government. Ciardi enrolled in
1861 at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied perspective with
Federico Moja and landscape and seascape with Domenico Bresolin, taking over
the latter’s teaching post in 1894. He went to Florence in 1868 and formed
friendships with Giovanni Costa and the Macchiaioli painters. After spending
some time in the countryside around Rome, he then arrived in Naples and came
into contact with Filippo Palizzi and the artists of the Resina School. On his
return to Venice the following year, he resumed his regular participation in
the exhibitions of the Academy and the Società Promotrice di Belle Arti. Works
were also sent to exhibitions in Milan, Turin, Genoa, Florence and Naples in
the 1870s and 1880s. The following decade saw participation in the Milan
Triennale, the Turin Exhibition of 1898 and the Venice Biennale from 1895 to
1914, with a solo show in 1909. Views of the Venetian lagoon and the
countryside around Treviso were accompanied by mountain landscapes painted
during his numerous stays in towns in Veneto, Trentino and Lombardy. Awarded a
gold medal in 1915 at the San Francisco Exhibition, where the participants
included his children Beppe and Emma, he was struck down by paralysis and died
two years later. More on Guglielmo Ciardi
Henry Pember Smith, (American, 1854-1907)
Venice, circa 1890
Oil on canvas
25 x 35-1/2 inches (63.5 x 90.2 cm)
Private collection
Henry Pember Smith (February 20, 1854 –
October 16, 1907) was an
American painter, best known for his depictions of country cottages and river
scenes around Lyme and East Lyme, Connecticut, and paintings of the sea and
shore in New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Cape Ann to Maine.
Smith was born in Waterford, Connecticut. During
the 1880s, he studied the Old Masters in Paris, Brittany, Normandy, Venice and
along the English Cornish coast. He was a member of the Artists' Fund Society
and the American Water Color Society, and exhibited at the National Academy of
Design from 1877-1896, 1899, 1901, 1906; the Brooklyn Art Club (1878-1885,
1892); Boston Art Club (1880-1890); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (1881,
1888); and the Art Institute of Chicago. Smith died of heart disease in Asbury,
New Jersey. More on Henry Pember Smith
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