Wednesday, September 27, 2017

SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART


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. 



Painting by Juan Sanchez Cotan

Venice Canal by Bernardo Bellotto
Grand Canal by Giovanni Canaletto

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.

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