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Description: | To the left a populous piazza is bounded by a monumental Baroque archway, at the centre is a busy harbour, and a mountain dominates the background. The scene, with its fantastical architecture and improbable juxtaposition of sea and mountain, is a capriccio conjured from the artist's imagination. As a production of the imagination, the capriccio was sometimes considered a superior genre to more topographically accurate view painting. Particularly associated with Italian artists, the capriccio reached the height of its popularity in the later eighteenth century. | Subjects: | marine; townscape; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Italian School Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8478... | Go to resource |
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