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Jan Frans van Bloemen L'Orizzonte (Anversa, 1662 - Roma, 1749)Attributed to
Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane while the disciples he had brought with him fell asleep , 17th century
h cm 100X83 in frame 113X98
Van Bloemen, a Flemish painter known as Horizon, trained first in his homeland and after a stay in France he arrived in Italy together with his brother Pieter.
The painting in question, a typical example of Van Bloemen's art, is influenced by all the stylistic influences of landscape artists such as Gaspard Dughet, Claude Lorrain and Andrea Locatelli, his rival with whom he disputed the primacy of greatest painter in Rome, with regard to Arcadian landscape painting.
The work depicts a biblical scene, but the real protagonist is the landscape, Lazio in its geographical location.
A purely idyllic scenario that in its depth highlights delicate, almost pastel-like hues, with light nuances, necessary to create a luminous atmosphere.
The orographic view, marked by a river course, takes on a background perspective that marks the horizon in a suggestive way, not for nothing was Van Bloemen called by his contemporaries with the name of Horizon; some paintings were signed in this way.
The biblical scene is organized below with darker colors and touches of light among the trees, with the exception of the figures which are made with a more lively color scheme, useful and functional to accentuate and highlight the anecdote.
The work can be dated to the period of the author's full maturity between the first and second decade of the 18th century.
Reference bibliography
L. Salerno Jan Frans Van Bloemen "The Horizon" and the Origin of the Eighteenth-Century Landscape, Rome 1974.
ASOR Studio
The painting in question, a typical example of Van Bloemen's art, is influenced by all the stylistic influences of landscape artists such as Gaspard Dughet, Claude Lorrain and Andrea Locatelli, his rival with whom he disputed the primacy of greatest painter in Rome, with regard to Arcadian landscape painting.
The work depicts a biblical scene, but the real protagonist is the landscape, Lazio in its geographical location.
A purely idyllic scenario that in its depth highlights delicate, almost pastel-like hues, with light nuances, necessary to create a luminous atmosphere.
The orographic view, marked by a river course, takes on a background perspective that marks the horizon in a suggestive way, not for nothing was Van Bloemen called by his contemporaries with the name of Horizon; some paintings were signed in this way.
The biblical scene is organized below with darker colors and touches of light among the trees, with the exception of the figures which are made with a more lively color scheme, useful and functional to accentuate and highlight the anecdote.
The work can be dated to the period of the author's full maturity between the first and second decade of the 18th century.
Reference bibliography
L. Salerno Jan Frans Van Bloemen "The Horizon" and the Origin of the Eighteenth-Century Landscape, Rome 1974.
ASOR Studio
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