Ricordo di Tivoli
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| Ricordo di Tivoli |
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| Anselm Feuerbach , 1867 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 194 × 131 cm |
| National Gallery, State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin |
Ricordo di Tivoli is a painting by the German painter Anselm Feuerbach that was created in 1866 during a stay in Rome.
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The painting shows two children sitting at the waterfalls of Tivoli east of Rome. The flower-wreathed boy is playing on a lute, the girl, who is also wearing a flower-wreath, has her head slightly tilted back. Her lips, slightly parted, seem to indicate that she is singing.
The part of the landscape that is shown here and which can be precisely identified by means of the waterfalls, was known for its ruins and buildings from antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Originally a city of the Latins was located here , which together with the entire Latium in the 4th century BC. Came under Roman control ( Municipium 90 BC). In front of the city, Emperor Hadrian built an extensive villa complex , the Villa Adriana . Even in the Middle Ages, Tivoli was one of the most important places around Rome. In the middle of the 16th century, Pirro Ligorio built the Villa d'Este, famous for the fountains in its Renaissance garden, for Cardinal Ippolito d'Este . The romantic location of the city with the waterfalls of the Aniene , a 110 kilometer long river that originated in the southern Simbruin mountains , attracted a number of artists.
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Careful studies preceded the painting. There are no fewer than three preliminary drawings for this painting in the National Gallery. The bucolic idyll seems stylized to today's viewer , but Anselm Feuerbach was very satisfied with its composition and, together with his painting The Storyteller at the Fountain and a family portrayal, rated it as a painting with spiritual expressiveness.
Anselm Feuerbach started the painting at the beginning of 1866 and finished it on December 31 of the same year, but dated the painting to 1867. It was acquired by the Munich art collector Konrad Fiedler , but Anselm Feuerbach did not give the painting to the collector until 1868. Reason This was because the collector and long-time supporter of Feuerbach, Count Adolf Friedrich von Schack , wanted a copy of the painting, on which Feuerbach worked longer than he had originally planned. The buyer of Ricordo di Tivoli , Konrad Fiedler, had previously acquired a similar painting by Feuerbach. This only shows the young girl who turned her gaze to the viewer. The painting has been lost since 1945. The famous waterfall can be found on two other paintings from 1864 (nymph overhears children playing), which can be found in the Schack-Galerie , Munich and in the art museum of Basel.
literature
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art: German Masters of the Nineteenth Century: Paintings and Drawings from the Federal Republic of Germany , Harry N. Abrams, New York 1981, ISBN 0-87099-263-5