The Canals of Venice

01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #46

Martin Packford, United Kingdom

Theodore and The Lion

Oil on board

39.4 H x 39.4 W x 0 in

Theodore and the Lion refers to the two columns outside the Palazzo Ducale, named after two patron saints of Venice.

The Column of the Lion and the Column of St. Theodore of Amasea, now located in Piazzetta San Marco, are examples of works coming from the East. They come out of the Venetian participation in the Crusades, concluding in the Sack of Constantinople in 1204. While their origins are uncertain, they represent the city as major landmarks in the region of the Doge’s Palace. The columns themselves seem to come from Constantinople. The Lion of Venice is an ancient bronze winged lion sculpture in the Piazza San Marco. It came to symbolize the city — as well as one of its patron saints, St Mark — after its arrival there in the 12th century. The sculpture surmounts one of two large granite columns in the Square. It has had a very long and obscure history, probably starting its existence as a winged lion-griffin statue on a monument to the god Sandon at Tarsus around 300 BC. At some point came to represent the “Lion of Saint Mark”, traditional symbol of Saint Mark the evangelist. The figure standing on the western column is St. Theodore of Amasea, patron of the city before St Mark, who holds a spear and stands on a crocodile (to represent the dragon which he was said to have slain). It is also made up of separate pieces of antique statues, including a crocodile, a torso and a head. The statue on the column is a copy with the original being kept in the Doge's Palace. More on The Columns of the Lion and St. Theodore

Martin Packford,'s work is primarily concerned with finding a harmonious balance between a clear representation of real locations with a spontaneous and gestural painting process.

Martin's paintings have been privately bought or specially commissioned by clients both nationally and internationally. He currently lives and works in Bristol.

"I am a contemporary landscape painter interested in the technique of painting and the method of using expressive and gestural brushwork to create something that transcends the scene represented into something more visual exciting and emotionally charged. The main focus of my paintings are scenes that depict large groups of people or that have a certain energy that can be expressed rather than just merely reproduced". More on Martin Packford

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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #47

Noel Georges Bouvard, (French, 1912–1975)

The Doge's Palace and the columns of St. Theodore and the Lion of Venice

Oil on canvas

50 x 65 cm. (19.7 x 25.6 in.)

Private collection

Theodore and the Lion refers to the two columns outside the Palazzo Ducale, named after two patron saints of Venice.

The Column of the Lion and the Column of St. Theodore of Amasea, now located in Piazzetta San Marco, are examples of works coming from the East. They come out of the Venetian participation in the Crusades, concluding in the Sack of Constantinople in 1204. While their origins are uncertain, they represent the city as major landmarks in the region of the Doge’s Palace. The columns themselves seem to come from Constantinople. The Lion of Venice is an ancient bronze winged lion sculpture in the Piazza San Marco. It came to symbolize the city — as well as one of its patron saints, St Mark — after its arrival there in the 12th century. The sculpture surmounts one of two large granite columns in the Square. It has had a very long and obscure history, probably starting its existence as a winged lion-griffin statue on a monument to the god Sandon at Tarsus around 300 BC. At some point came to represent the “Lion of Saint Mark”, traditional symbol of Saint Mark the evangelist. The figure standing on the western column is St. Theodore of Amasea, patron of the city before St Mark, who holds a spear and stands on a crocodile (to represent the dragon which he was said to have slain). It is also made up of separate pieces of antique statues, including a crocodile, a torso and a head. The statue on the column is a copy with the original being kept in the Doge's Palace. More on The Columns of the Lion and St. Theodore

Bouvard Noel George, 1912-1972, was born on the 25 December, 1912 in Paris, the son of Eloi Noel Beraud, better known as Marc Aldine or Antoine Bouvard. He was a recognised artist of architectural and landscape paintings, however, like his father he became best known for his works of Venetian canals. After studying at Ecole des Beaux Artists he became very influenced by his father and they worked together for many years from 1935 to 1950. Like his father, he often went to Venice to prepare his sketches and drafts from which he was able to create the flowing landscapes and harmonious arrangements, which made his paintings highly sought after in France as well as the UK. Bouvard places the scene carefully on the canvas with surrounding buildings reflecting in the water, and portrays the heat of the sun in its reflection against the stone surfaces. More on Bouvard Noel George

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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #45

Moses Bianchi, Monza 1840 - 1904

Gondola on the canal (View of Chioggia), c. 1880-1885

Oil on the table

27 x 35 cm

Accademia Carrara Bergamo

Chioggia is a coastal town and commune of the Metropolitan City of Venice in the Veneto region of northern Italy. The town is situated on a small island at the southern entrance to the Lagoon of Venice.

Mosè Bianchi ( Monza , 1840-1904) was an Italian painter and printmaker. Bianchi's family moved from Monza to Milan and he enrolled at the Brera Academy . Having interrupted his studies to serve in the second war of independence, he returned to attend the school directed by Giuseppe Bertini .

The award of a grant in 1867 enabled him to visit Venice and then Paris in 1869. He took part with some success at the Brera exhibitions and the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. It was in this period That he Began to paint genre scenes in 18th- century settings and numerous portraits, soon becoming one of the most popular artists on demand with the Milanese middle classes. He returned to Venice in 1879 and visited Chioggia for the first time. Gignese , views of Milan and Venice along the streets of Gignese. More on Mosè Bianchi

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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #44

Dietz Edzard, (German/Paris, 1893-1963)

Carnival in Venice, 1958

Oil on canvas

25-1/2" x 31-1/2

Private collection

The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival. The Carnival ends with the Christian celebration of Lent, forty days before Easter, on Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras), the day before Ash Wednesday. The festival is world-famous for its elaborate masks

Dietz Edzard, German/Paris, 1893-1963, came from a talented German family of artists and studied with the celebrated "German Expressionist" Max Beckmann in Berlin, before moving to France in the late 1920s. In Paris, he received wide acclaim, exhibiting regularly with the Post-Impressionists at the Jeu de Paume and at Durand-Ruel, where he met Suzanne Eisendieck, a fellow German artist, whom he married in 1938. During the German occupation of France, Edzard's work, like most great modern artists of the time, was determined to be "degenerate"; his and Eisendieck's paintings of women did not "celebrate German womanhood", but chose to depict the "ideal cretin and whore" instead at carnival, the theatre, opera or racetrack. While Edzard embraced Impressionist and Post-Impressionist study of optics and plein-air observations, he was equally influenced by the Fauves and Expressionists, preferring instead to examine color from a personal emotive experience culled from the drama of the streets, cabarets and the denizens who frequented them. More on Dietz Edzard

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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #42

Félix Ziem, 1821-1911, FRENCH

VENICE, SUNRISE OVER BACINO DI SAN MARCO

Oil on canvas

21 3/8 by 27 3/4 in., 54.3 by 70.5 cm

Private collection

Félix Ziem was the painter of Venice par excellence. In Venice, Sunrise over Bacino di San Marco, Ziem has positioned the viewer on the Molo, evidenced by the piers at lower right and the quickly rendered dock workers on a wharf at left, a favorite vantage point of the master of vedute painting, Canaletto. Looking across the Grand Canal at the ebb and flow of gondolas, his view is bathed in the golden light of sunrise. With characteristic gusto and a careful understanding of the effects of sunlight, Ziem reflects the iridescent light off of the water to brighten the rising clouds and pink granite of the Palazzo Ducale. More on this painting

Félix Ziem (February 26, 1821 – November 10, 1911) was a French painter in the style of the Barbizon School. He was born Félix-Francois Georges Philibert Ziem in Beaune in the Côte-d'Or département of the Burgundy région of France. His mother was a native of Burgundy who had married an immigrant. Originally, Ziem planned to be an architect and studied at the School of Architecture in Dijon, and for a time he worked as an architect. In 1839 he moved to Marseilles, where he received some informal instruction in painting from Adolphe Monticelli. Painting developed from a hobby into a career following a visit in 1841 to Italy, where he fell in love with the city of Venice, a place that would become the source for many of his works, and to which he returned annually until 1892. Apart from Venetian scenes, he also painted many still lifes, portraits, and landscapes from a variety of places including Constantinople, Martigues, Cagnes-sur-Mer and his native Burgundy. More on Félix Ziem

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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #43

Federico del Campo, 1837 - 1923, PERUVIAN

LA CHIESA GESUATI FROM THE CANALE DELLA GIUDECCA, VENICE, c. 1887

Oil on canvas

15½ by 26 in., 39.5 by 66 cm

Private collection

This painting captures the Zattere, meaning raft, built as a dock in the early sixteenth century to accommodate the delivery of timber for ships and buildings. Painted in 1884, the present work could be perceived as del Campo's tribute to Venice's grand history of trade. Red-coated gondoliers, waiting for their next passenger, crowd in front of the Renaissance façade of the Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione. At the center of this composition, bright yellow cargo is off-loaded from the sea-going two-masted brig to the smaller peàta, a cargo boat built specifically to transport goods through Venice’s rios. The brightly-colored sails of flat-bottomed bragozzo flutter as they carry goods across the calm waters of the canal to the island of Giudecca. This bustling view would have been among the first of La Serenissima for many visitors as traghetto and vaporetto launches from the Venice train station made their first landing on the Zattere just beyond Chiesa di Santa Maria del Rosario, more commonly referred to as I Gesuati. More on this painting

Federico del Campo, 1837 - 1923, PERUVIAN

Detail, LA CHIESA GESUATI FROM THE CANALE DELLA GIUDECCA, VENICE, c. 1887

Oil on canvas

15½ by 26 in., 39.5 by 66 cm

Private collection

Federico del Campo (1837-1923) was a Peruvian painter who was active in Venice where he was one of the leading vedute painters of the 19th century. Del Campo was born in Lima and left his native Peru at a young age. Nothing is known with certainty about his early studies in Peru. He studied at Madrid's Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando) in Madrid from around 1865. Here he established a friendship with Lorenzo Valles, a history painter. Del Campo subsequently travelled to Italy and painted in Naples, Capri, Rome, Assisi and Venice. During a visit to France he studied new artistic developments in Paris. From 1880, he exhibited works at the annual Salon van de Société des Artistes Français. In 1880 he established himself in Venice.

Here there already was a seizable community of emigré artists, such as Antonietta Brandeis, and the Spanish painters Martín Rico y Ortega, Mariano Fortuny and Rafael Senet. He became good friends with Martín Rico. The two artists worked sometimes together painting the Venetian scenes that were popular with the increasing number of visitors to that city. They responded thus to the large international market for their city views of Venice. Demand for del Campo's views was so strong, that he painted several views multiple times.

Particularly English tourists were taken by del Campo’s vedute of Venice. This was probably the reason why he moved to London in 1893 where he worked for a clientele of aristocrats and successful merchants. He was represented by art dealer Arthur Tooth who was able to organize a special exhibition of his work in Chicago during the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. This success likely ensured del Campo’s comfortable life style. Little is known about his last two decades but it is likely that he died in London in 1923. More on Federico del Campo

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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #41

Karl Wagner, (1839 - 1923)

Venice

Oil on canvas

20''h, 32-1/4''w.

Private collection

Karl Ludwig Friedrich Wagner , also Carl Wagner (born May 8, 1839 in Karlsruhe , † August 15, 1923 in Dusseldorf ), was a German painter.

From 1854 to 1864 he was a student with Ludwig Des Coudres at the Art Academy Karlsruhe . Later he settled in Dusseldorf, where he was a member of the artist association Malkasten .

He initially painted historical genre scenes in the strict style of the Des Coudres School, then moved after 1870 on scenes from the Franco-German War , including the meeting of Otto von Bismarck with Napoleon III. Bismarck's negotiations with Adolphe Thiers and Jules Favre , as well as "Kaiser Wilhelm and his paladins," which were spread by engraving.

He was also known for his port and fishing motifs, besides he made numerous portraits, such as Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden , the Emperors Wilhelm I and Wilhelm II , Otto von Bismarck and others, with "elegantly representative conception and most painterly through education ".

Wagner's works are shown, among others, in the Nationalgalerie Berlin , the Barmer Hall of Fame in Wuppertal , the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe and the Rathaus Stolberg .

He was a member of the Dusseldorf Masonic Lodge To the three allies . More on Karl Wagner

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01 Photograph of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #40

Alfred Stieglitz, (1864–1946)

Venetian Canal or A Bit of Venice, c. 1898

Toned photogravure

7 x 4 3/4 in. (17.7 x 12 cm)

Public domain

A Bit of Venice was photographed in the early summer of 1894 and published in New York several times later in the same decade. The striking photograph summarizes the results of Stieglitz's nine years of study in Europe and represents the moment when the impact of his crusade on behalf of photography as an art form was first being felt in the United States. More on this painting

Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was the eldest child of highly cultured and prosperous parents. The family of eight spent winters in New York City and summered on the shores of Lake George in upper New York State, as did Stieglitz until his death in 1946. The family went abroad in 1881, where Alfred pursued advanced training in Germany, first as an engineer, and after 1883 as a photographer. By the time he returned to New York in 1890, the quality of his work and the originality of his technical research had earned him a considerable reputation and he soon became widely recognized as one of America's leading artists in photography. Through publications such as Camera Notes (1897-1900) and Camera Work (1903-17), and his active role in photography exhibitions, he played a pivotal role in introducing to Americans the idea that photography, far from just a means of providing a mechanical record, was an art form with its own aesthetic qualities and standards.

In the years before and during World War I, Stieglitz exhibited the work of many of Europe's leading avant-garde artists, as well as emerging American artists and photographers, at the Photo-Secession Gallery, 291. In a succession of galleries thereafter he supported such distinguished American artists as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Gaston Lachaise (1882-1935), and Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986). More on Alfred Stieglitz

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01 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #39

Antonietta Brandeis, MISKOVICE 1849 - 1926 FLORENCE,

VENICE, A VIEW OF THE LAGOON

Oil on panel

5 3/4 by 9 5/8 in.; 14.6 by 24.5 cm.

Private collection

Antonietta Brandeis (also known as Antonie Brandeisova and Antonio Brandeis) (1848–1926), was a Czech-born Italian landscape, genre and portrait painter, as well as a painter of religious subjects for altarpieces.

She was born in Miskovice in Eastern Europe. The first bibliographical indication of Antonietta Brandeis dates from her teens, when she is mentioned as a pupil of the Czech artist Karel Javurek of Prague. After the death of Brandeis' father, her mother, Giuseppina Dravhozvall, married the Venetian Giovanni Nobile Scaramella; shortly afterward the family apparently moved to Venice.

In the 1867 registry of the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts, Brandeis is listed as being enrolled as an art student. At this time, Brandeis would have been nineteen, and one of the first females to receive academic instruction in the fine arts in Italy. In fact, the Ministry granted women the legal right to instruction in the fine arts only in 1875, by which time Brandeis had finished her education at the Academy.

During her first years of study there is evidence of Brandeis' skill-in her first year she is awarded prizes and honors in Perspective and Life Drawing. Brandeis’ continuing excellence and diligence in her artistic studies during the five years she spends at the Academy is attested to in the lists of prize-winning students. More on Antonietta Brandeis

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01 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #38

Antonietta Brandeis, 1849 - 1920, CZECH

The Bridge of Sighs

Oil on panel

21.5 by 12cm., 8½ by 4¾in. (2)

Private collection

The Bridge of Sighs is an enclosed bridge made of white limestone. It has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace.

The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge's name, given by Lord Byron, comes from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells. In reality, the days of inquisitions and summary executions were over by the time the bridge was built. More on The Bridge of Sighs

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01 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #37

Antonio Reyna, 1859 - 1937, SPANISH

ST MARK'S SQUARE, VENICE

Oil on canvas

35.5 by 75cm., 14 by 29½in.

Private collection

Piazza San Marco or St. Mark’s Square is the main public square in Venice. The Piazza is located in front of the great Byzantine church known as Basilica di San Marco. This Piazza is surrounded by shops, caffè’s and palazzi on three sides. According to local legend Napoleon called the Piazza San Marco “the drawing room of Europe.” More on Piazza San Marco

Antonio Maria De Reyna Mascau ( Coin , December 5 , 1859 - Rome , 3 February 1937) was a Spanish artist , and among the most original of his time in Italy.

From a young age he showed a predisposition and great passion for drawing, thanks to this outstanding talent, he was enrolled in painting classes at the School of Fine Arts in Malaga , where he began his artistic training.

Antonio become a celebrity in his hometown, the County Council awarded him an annuity paiment so he could expand his studies and his knowledge. This revenue allowed him to move to Italy, where he could devote himself to the study of the old masters

He chose Rome, where he visits with the most important artists of the time, and where he married the opera singer Beatrice Mililotti De Santis. Thanks to his wife's, he had important commissions from the most important families in the city.

He was considered one of the most significant authors of Venetian view painting in the nineteenth and twentieth century. He painted palaces and Venetian architecture, for this reason it was referred to as the painter of Venice using a very personal technique, which gave the works, a vibrant and intense light through a very rich palette chromatically. He has exhibited at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris in 1887 and also participated in 1901 and 1911 at the Great Exhibition of Rome.

Antonio Reyna, along with Senet has continued the tradition started by Martin Rico y Ortega, painters of light and color on the canvas that have set their impressions through animated pictorial images from the canals, gondolas, Venetian palaces and squares. More Reyna Mascau

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