Veduta | Il Vedutismo

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1632-1675) | View of Delft, 1660-1661 | Mauritshuis, The-Hague

A veduta (Italian for "view"; plural vedute) is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of vedute are referred to as vedutisti.

This genre of landscape originated in Flanders, where artists such as Paul Bril painted vedute as early as the 16th century.

In the 17th century, Dutch painters made a specialty of detailed and accurate recognizable city and landscapes that appealed to the sense of local pride of the wealthy Dutch middle class.

An archetypal example is Johannes Vermeer's View of Delft.

Herbert Schmalz | Pre-Raphaelite | Orientalist painter

Herbert Gustave Schmalz who named himself Herbert Gustave Carmichael in 1918, was an English painter. He is counted among the Pre-Raphaelites.

Schmalz was born in England as the son of a German father and an English mother. He received conventional education in painting, first at the South Kensington Art School and later at the Royal Academy of Arts, where he studied with Frank Dicksee, Stanhope Forbes and Arthur Hacker. He perfected his studies in Antwerp at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

After his return to London he made a name for himself as a history painter, with a style influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and orientalism. In 1884 he successfully exhibited his painting Too Late at the Royal Academy.

Herbert Schmalz - Return from Calvary, 1891

Giovanni Paolo Bedini (1844-1924) | Genre painter

Giovanni Bedini, also known as Paolo Bedini was an Italian painter who was born in Bologna, Italy.

The artist was trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, initially started up in painting with a historical theme, and soon abandoned it to devote himself to the representation of everyday life more carefree.

That of Bedini was a cheerful and lively art, much appreciated by critics and far from any romantic rhetoric, which matured its peculiarities in the vein of neo-rococo and middle-bourgeois style.

A tireless worker, Bedini created many works including oil paintings and watercolors that found a wide market both in Italy and abroad.

Giovanni Bedini (Bologna, 26 dicembre 1844 - 14 marzo 1924) è stato un pittore Italiano.

Giovanni Bedini, detto anche Paolo Bedini, formatosi all'Accademia di belle arti di Bologna si aggiudicò giovanissimo molti premi tra cui quello in Architettura (1863), in Decorazione e Figura (1864), in Prospettiva (1865), in Pittura (1866) e nella Figura delle statue ed Anatomia (1867).

La sua prima mostra avvenne nel 1867 quando portò un'opera ispirata alla storia rinascimentale nell'Esposizione Triennale di Reggio Emilia.

In seguito espose a Torino (1872), Genova (1876), Firenze (1877) e a Milano (1876, 1893, 1895, 1906).

Nel 1894 fu chiamato ad insegnare elementi di figura presso l'Accademia bolognese e, tra il 1907-1922, fu docente e Capo di Istituto presso la Scuola Professionale per le Arti Decorative di Bologna (in seguito denominata Istituto d'Arte e oggi accorpata in un unico istituto col nome di: Liceo Artistico "Francesco Arcangeli").

Vincenzo Gemito (1852-1929) | Drawings

Vincenzo Gemito (1852-1929) was one of the sculptors in the second half of the 19th century known as the "Neo-Florentines" who took their inspiration from the Italian Renaissance🎨, particularly from the sculptures of Verrocchio, Donatello🎨 and Giambologna🎨.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and Sculpture works by Gemito see:

• Vincenzo Gemito (1852-1929) | Sculptures🎨 
• Vincenzo Gemito (1852-1929) | Figurative sculptor🎨

Vincenzo Gemito (1852-1929) | Sculptures

Vincenzo Gemito🎨 was essentially self-taught. Discovered on the foundling hospital's doorstep and adopted by a poor artisan, Gemito got work in a sculptor's studio when he was nine years old.

He ultimately worked for two local artists, but neither seems to have had much stylistic influence on him.

By age sixteen, Gemito had sold a statue to the city of Naples.

His realistic representations of Neapolitan street life marked a dramatic shift from earlier artists' sentimentalizing.