During our visit at the San Diego Museum of art we spent time in the galley with “genre” paintings that includes landscapes, still life and interiors. Around 1600 a shift took place with the rise of
naturalism.
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| Painting by Juan Sanchez Cotan |
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| Venice Canal by Bernardo Bellotto |
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| Grand Canal by Giovanni Canaletto |
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| The Penetant Saint by El Greco |
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The gallery with European
devotion art spans 1550-1850. Religious
Institutions commissioned artists
and architects to build and decorate places of worship, from cathedrals to
monasteries and hospitals.
Monarchs and wealthy nobility
also employed artists to paint devotional works for domestic setting and design
altarpieces for family chapels at parish churches.
