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Buildings in Naples

JONES, Thomas

© Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Artists from all over Europe flocked to Italy in the eighteenth century. It was a place of breathtaking natural wonders, and a place to study antiquity and the great art of the Renaissance. When the Welsh artist Thomas Jones set out in 1776, Italy was the centre of a pioneering movement – the tradition of the landscape oil sketch. During his three year stay, Jones made a distinctive and deeply original contribution to this tradition. At the start of his second stay in Naples, from May 1780 until August 1783, Jones found lodgings with a roof terrace in a house near the harbour. From this vantage-point he made a series of highly finished oil studies of neighbouring buildings which have a remarkable freshness and immediacy. Away from the grand palaces and popular Italian sights, Thomas Jones delighted in humbler subjects - crumbling walls, lines of washing, shuttered windows. These were not the usual subjects of an eighteenth century artist. This minutely-detailed sketch was painted from the roof of his house in Naples. With its dusty blue and silver grey tones and unusual cropping technique, it looks refreshingly modern.


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Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 89

Creation/Production

JONES, Thomas
Date: 1782

Acquisition

Purchase, 2/7/1954

Measurements

Height (cm): 14.2
Width (cm): 21.6
Height (in): 5
Width (in): 8
(): h(cm) frame:29.3
(): h(cm)
(): w(cm) frame:37
(): w(cm)
(): d(cm) frame:5.5
(): d(cm)

Techniques

oil on paper
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting

Material

oil
Paper

Location

In store
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Tags

  • Architecture And Buildings
  • Art And Design Movements
  • Building
  • Fine Art
  • Jones, Thomas
  • Landscape
  • Landscape Features
  • Painting
  • Roof
  • Townscape And Cityscape
  • Welsh Connection

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