John Constable
Bagnasco Nicolò
Sciolto Matteo
De Luca Lorenzo
Zaffaroni Francesco
Furlanis Jacopo
Historic overview
Historic
overview
Romanticism
Romanticism
- Reject of Elinghtment
- Reconnection with the past
- in literature: Wordsworth
- for novels: Mary Shelley
- In art: Caspar David Fiedrich
- In music: Beethoven
Romanticism
- Late 18th-19th century
- Setting in dark and mysterious places
- Atmosphere of terror and suspense
- Presence of supernatural elements
- Romantic subplot
- Melodrama
- Psychological themes
- Use of symbolism
Romanticism
Sublime
- Created by Burke
- Feelings of terror
- Nature
- Limits of human experience
Suffolk
Where was he born?
John Constable was born in Suffolk in 1776 from a cereal merchant.
Education
The Royal Academy of London
Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain
Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba
Influences:
- Nature
- Romanticism
- Dutch painters
Influence
Jacob van ruisdael-dorotheum
Edmund Burke
view on the stour near Dedham
Burke
sublime:
- Burke's essay on beauty
- Critic about painting's main theme
- Other artists influenced
Road to the impressionism
- Suffolk
- Hills of Hempstead
- Sodbury
Road to impressionism
detail of "Strafford Mill"
Constable's studies on clouds
Clouds
Paintings
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
Wivenhoe Park
Wivenhoe Park
The Cornfield
The cornfield
Thak you for watching!
Thank you
https://youtu.be/_QUBrOBgSqg
https://www.skuola.net/storia-arte/rinascimento-romanticismo/sublime-pittoresco-friederich-constable.html
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/constable-john/
https://www.villegiardini.it/john-constable-e-lo-stile-romantico-pittoresco/#:~:text=In%20particolare%20il%20suo%20nome,paesaggi%20contraddistinguono%20le%20sue%20opere.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/constables-oil-sketches
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/constable-salisbury-cathedral-from-the-meadows-t13896/in-depth-salisbury-cathedral-from-the-meadows/techniques-materials-six-footer-paintings
Style
- The Tate Gallery - https://www.tate.org.uk/
- The British Library - https://www.bl.uk/
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art - https://www.metmuseum.org/
- The National Gallery - https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
- The Victoria and Albert Museum - https://www.vam.ac.uk/
- The John Constable Virtual Gallery - https://www.john-constable.org/
- The Romantic Circles - https://romantic-circles.org/
- The University of Oxford's Romanticism and Victorianism Research Group - https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/research/romanticism-and-victorianism-research-group
- Romanticism on the Net - https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ron/
- Romanticism and the Net blog - https://www.rc.umd.edu/category/blog/
Romanticism