The Parthenon
Sul dipinto
Il Partenone è un dipinto del 1871 dell'artista americano Frederic Edwin Church che si trova nella collezione del Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York.
Church visitò la Grecia nel 1869 e trascorse diverse settimane ad Atene, dove fece numerosi studi sulle rovine del Partenone che in seguito servirono come base per il lavoro. Nel 1871 una commissione del finanziere e filantropo Morris K. Jesup ha finalmente permesso a Church di iniziare a lavorare sul suo "grande Partenone".
Il dipinto è in mostra alla Galleria 760 del Metropolitan Museum.
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- 15.30.67
Nel frattempo, nella vita di Frederic Edwin Church
Tutta la vitawinter 1868 – 1869
A winter in Rome
Back in southern Europe by summer, the Churches wintered in Rome among artist friends, including Sanford Robinson Gifford and Jervis McEntee. There Church learned fresco painting and collected Old Master paintings, though on the whole Europe interested him far less than it did most American artists.
April 1869
Athens and the Parthenon; home again
Leaving his family in Rome, Church spent two weeks in Athens, where the Parthenon so impressed him that he sketched and painted it energetically; this visit ended the journey. In May the Churches left Rome and, by way of Paris and England, were home by the end of June.
1870
Begins building Olana
Before the journey Church had bought 18 acres on the hilltop above his farm for its views of the Hudson and the Catskills, and in 1870 he began building a Persian-inspired mansion there. Richard Morris Hunt was consulted early on and the architect Calvert Vaux completed the project, but Church made his own architectural sketches and laid out roads, writing that he could make more and better landscapes this way than with canvas and paint in the studio.
1870
A founding trustee of the Metropolitan Museum
Church became one of the founding trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and remained one until his death.
30 aprile 1870
Son born: Louis P. Church
