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Study of Architecture Florence
John Singer Sargent
-- American painter
c. 1910
Fine Arts Museums of
San Fransico
Oil on canvas
71.1 x 88.9 cm (28 x
35 in.)
Gift of The de Young
Museum Society, purchased from funds donated by the Charles E. Merrill
Trust, to the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
Jpg: Fine
Arts Museums of San Fransico
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This is one of my vary favorite paintings.
The symmetry of the columns, the foreshortening, the fountain in the background
with the open patio and the play of light and shades. This painting works
very well on many levels and this image (along with the close-up)
works well in this medium.
Sargent is trying to capture not
the entire structure but the wondrously poetic sense of this beautiful
space.
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