Serpentara

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Serpentara landscape near Olevano , painting by Paul Weber , around 1860
The Serpentara , painting by August Lucas (attributed)

The Serpentara ( snake grove ) is an oak grove above the community of Olevano Romano , which the painters of the German Romans considered a sacred oak grove . "The oak growth on bare rocks became the preferred and most frequently studied forest model of the romantics ."

history

A joint campaign by art lovers and painters, with which money was collected and invested for the purchase in favor of the German Empire and the German Emperor, prevented the deforestation of the forest and its utilization for railway sleepers in 1873. The painter Carl Schuch took part in the rescue operation by assuming a quarter of the costs.

Others

The Villa Serpentara in Olevano Romano was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the sculptor Heinrich Gerhardt (1823–1915) and bequeathed to the Akademie der Künste in his will in 1914 . Today it is an academy facility for its scholarship holders.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Villa Serpentara. German Academy of Rome, accessed on January 21, 2010 .
  2. ^ Villa Serpentara Scholarship. Literaturport.de, accessed on January 22, 2010 .

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