Rosalba Carriere (sometimes Carrera ) ( Italian: Rosalba Carriera , October 7, 1675 [1] , Chioggia - April 15, 1757 , Venice ) - Italian painter and miniature of the Venice School, one of the main representatives of the Rococo style in the art of Italy and France.
| Rosalba Carrier | |
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| Rosalba carriera | |
 Self portrait with a portrait of a sister, 1715 | |
| Date of Birth | October 7, 1675 |
| Place of Birth | Chioggia |
| Date of death | April 15, 1757 (81 years old) |
| Place of death | Venice |
| A country | |
| Genre | portrait |
| Style | rococo |
Content
Biography and Creativity
The daughter of a lace maker. According to a number of researchers, she studied with her mother and started as a decorator of ivory snuffboxes (intended for sale to tourists); hence her interest in portrait miniature .
At the age of 25, she was elected to the guild of artists for her work - the Academy of Saint Luke in Rome. In 1716, she met in Venice with a prominent financier and famous collector Pierre Crozat and, on his advice, moved to Paris in March 1720 with her family, where her pastels were a huge success, becoming one of the impulses for the emerging Rococo art. In the French capital, she received an order for 36 portraits of members of the royal family (including a portrait of young Louis XV - one of her best works). In Paris, she kept diaries and extensive correspondence, met with Watteau , painted his portrait. Her student in Paris was the most prominent representative of Rococo in Swedish painting, Gustaf Lundberg . In the same year she was elected a member of the French Royal Academy of Painting; the following year (1721) she returned to Venice, to her house on the Grand Canal. In 1730, Carriere left Venice, worked for 6 months in Vienna, at the court of Emperor Charles VI , her connoisseur and patron. The student of Carriere in Vienna was the daughter of Charles VI, the future Empress Maria Theresa .
Carrier’s works were extremely popular in Europe in royal courts and among the nobility, the secret of this success is clear - all her portraits are filled with the most tender charm, her characters are smiling, beautiful (and very embellished), their inner world is full of subtle charm, femininity, lightness ( so close to Rococo’s artistic worldview).
By the 1750s, the artist lost her sight: two cataract surgery did not help, and the artist remained blind until the end of her days. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, several of her biographies were created in the wake of the feminist movement, the German writer Michaela Jari wrote a historical novel about her.
Gallery
Leblon Girl
Self portrait, 1746
Portrait of Cardinal Polignac
Texts
- Diario degli anni 1720 e 1721 scritto di propria mani in Parigi. Venezia, 1793
- Journal de Rosalba Carriera pendant son séjour à Paris en 1720 et 1721. Paris: J. Techener, 1865
- Rosalba's journal, and other papers / Austin Dobson, ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1915
- Lettere, diari, frammenti / Bernardina Sani, ed. Firenze: LS Olschki, 1985
Notes
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Britannica
Literature
- Walther A. Rosalba Carriera. Dresden: VEB Verlag der Kunst, 1984.
- Sani B. Rosalba Carriera. Torino: U. Allemandi; Milano: Messaggerie libri, 1988
- Panzeri L. Rosalba Carriera. Mirano: Eidos, 2002
- Jary M. Die Pastellkönigin: historischer Roman. München: Droemer, 2005
- Mehler U. Rosalba Carriera 1673-1757: die Bildnismalerin des 18. Jahrhunderts. Königstein im Taunus: Ortensia Koenigstein, 2006
Links
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- Works in museums of the world
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- British Encyclopedia article