- Title:
- The Capuchin Convent at Amalfi
- Object name(s):
- Picture; German
- Brief description:
- This sketch was painted during the summer of 1829 when Blechen was visiting Amalfi, down the coast from Naples. The Capuchin convent, seen here perched on a wall of rock, was frequently visited by artists. By positioning the vertical mass of rocks in the foreground, Blechen leads our eyes into the space beyond, towards the monastery whose mass seems almost to blend into the rocks.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Credit line:
- The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery
- Current location:
- Room 39
- Current reproduction location:
- 2/16/517/379/mid_L-0799-00-000006.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 28.50
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 38.70
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- Oil on paper laid on board
- Object name:
- Picture; German
- Object production date:
- about 1829
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1829
- Date - latest:
- 1829
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1825-49
- Object production person:
- Carl Blechen
- Person's birth date:
- 1798
- Person's death date:
- 1840
- Other number:
- L799
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0F6R-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- L799
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-0358-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- l2799
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- Romantic
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/3304a6e0-0fa0-3822-9071-13f9b394797f
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/3304a6e0-0fa0-3822-9071-13f9b394797f, National Gallery, CC BY
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