Rosalba Carriera

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Rosalba Carriera, self-portrait 1715

Rosalba Carriera (* 7. October 1675 in Venice ; † 15. April 1757 ibid) was an Italian pastel - painter .

Life

Rosalba Carriera's talent was discovered and promoted at a young age by her father, Andrea Carriera. Her first teacher was Giuseppe Diamantini. She studied at the Roman Accademia di San Luca and then with Antonio Balestra in Venice. The painter Christian Cole, who made her work known in Rome, advised her to switch from oil paints to pastel pencils, with which she found her style. At a young age she mainly created miniature painting , later more and more pastel painting . She mainly painted half-figures , heads of Christ , Mary as well as mythological and allegorical figures. Celebrated and admired she toured Europe and was a welcome guest at many courts . She was in Paris in 1720/21, in Modena in 1723 , and in Vienna in 1730 .

After the death of her sister Giovanna († 1737) and her mother a year later, Carriera was so desperate that she could no longer work and had to be persuaded to take on jobs again. An eye disease also made itself more and more noticeable; painting became more and more arduous. Despite some painful eye operations, the painter went blind in 1746. Carriera was cared for by her only surviving sister, Angela, and she lived for another eleven years - not falling into madness, as is often claimed, but in her own words in the “darkest blackest night”. Rosalba Carriera died on April 15, 1757, blind and in deep sadness in Venice.

Her works can be found in Dresden, Venice, Vienna, Munich ( Alte Pinakothek ) and Paris. They are created in the spirit of the Rococo and are characterized by their softness of color and great grace.

Works

Girl with a Parrot , ca.1730 ( Art Institute of Chicago )

painting

Pastel pictures in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie (selection):

In other collections:

gallery

literature

  • Rosalba Carriera: Diario degli anni 1720 ed 1721, scritto di propria mano in Parigi, da Rosalba Carriera, dipintrice famosa, posseduto, illustrato e pubblicato dal signor D. Giovanni D. Vianelli, canonico della cathedral di Chioggia; in Venezia, nella stamperia Coleti, 1793. Venice 1793. (Diary, published posthumously.)
  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Carriera, Rosalba . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 294 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Emilie von Hoerschelmann: Rosalba Carriera, the master of pastel painting. Studies and pictures from the art and cultural history of the 18th century. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1908.
  • Micaela Jary : The pastel queen . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-426-19670-0 .

Web links

Commons : Rosalba Carriera  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Rosalba Carriera in the catalog of the Royal Picture Gallery in Dresden (1887)  - sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Carriera, Rosalba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian pastel painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1675
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1757
Place of death Venice