Bathing Nymphs
around 1525/28 | Jacopo Negretti, gen. Palma il Vecchio
The subject of the naked woman located in a natural setting had been native to Venice since Giorgione and the early Titian. Yet never before had the emphasis been so clearly on working out the figure in a three-dimensional manner, stressing the linear contour of the complex assembly and interplay of female figures. Palma adopted here the movement motifs of the sculptors of antiquity and drew on the repertoire of such Mannerist contemporaries as Giulio Romano. The sensuous surface texture typically found in Venetian art has given way here to a porcelain-like coolness.
The subject of the naked woman located in a natural setting had been native to Venice since Giorgione and the early Titian. Yet never before had the emphasis been so clearly on working out the figure in a three-dimensional manner, stressing the linear contour of the complex assembly and interplay of female figures. Palma adopted here the movement motifs of the sculptors of antiquity and drew on the repertoire of such Mannerist contemporaries as Giulio Romano. The sensuous surface texture typically found in Venetian art has given way here to a porcelain-like coolness.
Artist:
Jacopo Negretti, gen. Palma il Vecchio (um 1480 Serinalta bei Bergamo - 1528 Venedig) DNB
Time:
around 1525/28
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Italian, Venetian
Material/technology:
Canvas on wood
Dimensions:
oben beschnitten: top cut: 77,5 x 124 cm
Framed: 100,5 cm x 146 cm x 10 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 6803
Provenance
1636 Coll. Bartolomeo della Nave, Venice; 1638-1649 Coll. Hamilton; Coll. Leopold Wilhelm; 1781 in Pressburg; 1930 transferred from the Vienna Hofburg to the picture gallery;
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