Paintings of Italy: Venice, Rome, Florence and the Amalfi Coast, framed
Venice as the view painters sold it to Grand Tour travellers: Canaletto's Entrance to the Grand Canal (about 1730), Bernardo Bellotto's Molo and Rio dei Mendicanti (about 1740), and Henry Pether's San Giorgio Maggiore by moonlight.
Rome is Giovanni Paolo Panini's St Peter's and Pantheon from the inside, George Inness's Saint Peter's (1857), the Colosseum, the Tiber and Castel Sant'Angelo. Florence appears in views by Thomas Cole (1837) and Oswald Achenbach (1883), and Cole's View near Tivoli, Morning dates from 1832.
In the south are Aivazovsky's Bay of Naples (1841) and Ischia at sunset, Bierstadt's Vesuvius at midnight (1868), the Amalfi Coast and its Capuchin monastery by Carl Morgenstern and Jakob Alt, Gierymski's Amalfi Cathedral and a Sicilian castle near Trapani. Each is printed at its true shape, nothing cropped or stretched, and arrives framed and ready to hang.
25 works in this collection, dated 1730 to 1899. Most represented: Giovanni Paolo Panini (3), Thomas Cole (3), and Bernardo Bellotto (2). Sources include National Gallery of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
