“A fire in oil depots in the San Marcuola quarter” ( Italian: Incendio al deposito degli oli a San Marcuola ) - a painting by Italian painter Francesco Guardi (1712–1793), a representative of the Venetian school . Established in 1789. Since 1972, it is stored in the collection of the Academy Gallery in Venice .
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| Francesco Guardi | ||
| Fire at oil depots in the San Marcuola quarter . 1789 | ||
| ital Incendio al deposito degli oli a San Marcuola | ||
| Canvas, oil. 32 × 51 cm | ||
| Academy Gallery , Venice | ||
History
The fire of oil depots in the quarter of San Marcuola (in the Venetian ghetto ) occurred on November 28, 1789 . Guardi, who at the time was 78 years old, went to the site to make full-scale two drawings, one of which is now stored in the Correr Museum in Venice, the other in the Metropolitan Museum in New York . It was from the first draft that the picture was kept, which is stored in the Gallery of the Academy.
Description
The artist depicted the last phase of the fire: the fire spread to neighboring houses with warehouses, highlighted the walls and roofs on which firefighters heroically try to put out the flames. The foreground of the picture is almost all over the horizontal marked with the backs of sympathetic passers-by (the figures of people from the back are made according to the canons of Rococo , at the time when the neoclassical style was already established). Twilight coloring is written in a hot palette of shades of reddish and golden colors that convey the heat of fire. The dynamic brush of the artist with a live brushstroke, transferring to the canvas chaotic gusts of the wall of flame, free and swift. Guardi tried not to draw fire, but to transfer his destructive and all-consuming power.
This is one of the last paintings by Guardi, it refers to the documentary genre to which the artist has already addressed in such works as “Raising the Balloon” and “Celebrating on the occasion of the arrival of the count and Countess of Nord”.
Literature
- “Academy Gallery. Venice". Ed. Lucia Impelluso. = Gallerie Dell'accademia: Venezia. - / Trans. with it. - M .: BMM, 2006. - 160 p. - (Great museums of the world). - 3000 copies - ISBN 5-88353-246-2 .
- N. Netashvili, L. Chechik. VOLUME 14. // “Gallery of the Academy. Venetsiya. - K .: PrАТ “Komsomolskaya Pravda - Ukraine”, 2012. - P. 10. - 96 p. - (“The Great Museum of Light”). - 7000 copies - ISBN 978-966-2492-95-8 .