Russian Art

Shchedrin, Silvester F. "View of Amalfi near Naples". 1825 - 1829

Notes: View of Amalfi near Naples The decade of the 1820s was an exciting time for foreign painters in Italy. The Germans, French, English, and Russians were there in force. Of those painters, the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and the Englishman Joseph Turner were undoubtedly the most famous. Corot's studies of Rome and its environs are particularly notable for their innovative attention to the effect of the warm Italian light on architecture. Shchedrin's works, in contrast, emphasize cool light and the quality of shadows, both of which are seen in "View of Amalfi near Naples." Whereas Corot's focus on the appearance of structure in light relates his work to that of Nicolas Poussin, Shchedrin's interest in the atmosphere of nature recalls the paintings of seventeenth-century Dutch artists.