View of Bracciano

View of Bracciano is an oil on canvas painting by Flemish painter Paul Bril. It was painted in the early 1620s, and is currently housed at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.[2][3] The painting was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2007.

View of Bracciano
ArtistPaul Bril
Yearca. 1620[1]
Catalogue20078P34
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions74.5 cm × 163.6 cm (29.33 in × 64.40 in)
LocationArt Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Painting

The painting is a view of Bracciano, a small town today part of the Italian region of Lazio (in Bril's day within the Papal States), 30 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of Rome.

Bril completed this oeuvre during his stay in Italy, where he probably arrived in 1582,[4] and went on to become "perhaps the most popular painter of landscapes in Rome in the late 16th and early 17th centuries."[5]

In the foreground, an armed carriage drawn by six horses and followed by two dogs is travelling to a castle commanding a small town. Three commoners took off their hats as the carriage passes by, while a herdsman leans on his staff. From the carriage on the bottom right corner, the undulate road leads crosswise to the town, which descends to the lake (Lake of Bracciano) left to right. Topographical representations like the View of Bracciano are rare in Bril.[6] He completed this oeuvre in the 1620s.[2][3]

The painting was acquired by the Roy and Marjory Edwards Bequest Fund and the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation in 2007.[3]

References
  1. Claude Gellée, Peter Russell (2017). Delphi Complete Paintings of Claude Lorrain (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. ISBN 9781786565051.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. "View of Bracciano". Google Arts and Culture. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  3. Nicola Courtright. "Paul Bril." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 26 September 2016
  4. "Paul Bril". Britannica. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  5. Louisa Wood Ruby (1999). Paul Bril The Drawings. Isd. ISBN 9782503505770.
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