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Landscape with a Rainbow, 1794, Joseph Wright
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Cottage on Fire, Joseph Wright of Derby, c. 1786-1787, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings
This nocturnal scene features dramatic contrasts: the hot red light of the fire versus the cool white moonlight, the cottage abruptly consumed by flames as opposed to the slowly decaying castle. Unusual light effects fascinated Joseph Wright, who knew several prominent English scientists investigating the nature of light and vision. After a trip to Italy in 1773-75, where he witnessed a violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius and a spectacular fireworks display at the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, Wright made sensational lighting effects the keynote of many of his landscapes. Wright's work prefigured trends in Romantic landscape painting a generation later: themes of tragic destruction would become popular in the 19th century in both England and France. At the same time, this picture reveals its kinship with the decorative landscape styles of the 18th century, seen in its gracefully curving trees, flickering highlights, and simplified coloring. Size: 22 7/8 x 30 in. (58.1 x 76.2 cm) (canvas) Medium: Oil on canvas
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/3296/
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aic-european · 3 years
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The Gulf of Salerno, Joseph Wright of Derby, 1783, Art Institute of Chicago: European Painting and Sculpture
L.L. and A.S. Coburn, Josephine and John I. Louis, Jr., and Alexander A. McKay Endowments; through prior acquisition of the Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Endowment Size: 16 3/8 × 23 3/8 in. (41.6 × 59.4 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/180711/
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An Academy by Lamplight, 1769, Joseph Wright
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The Dead Soldier, 1789, Joseph Wright
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Brooke Boothby, 1781, Joseph Wright
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The Cloister of San Cosimato, 1789, Joseph Wright
Medium: oil
https://www.wikiart.org/en/joseph-wright/the-cloister-of-san-cosimato
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A Girl reading a Letter, with an Old Man reading over her shoulder, 1770, Joseph Wright
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A Cottage on Fire, 1787, Joseph Wright
Medium: oil,canvas
https://www.wikiart.org/en/joseph-wright/a-cottage-on-fire
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The Old Man and Death, 1774, Joseph Wright
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Firework Display at the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome, 1779, Joseph Wright
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Maria, from Sterne, a Companion to the Picture of Edwin, 1781, Joseph Wright
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Virgil's Tomb, Joseph Wright
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A Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno, Sunset, 1781, Joseph Wright
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An Italian Landscape with Mountains and a River, 1790, Joseph Wright
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Vesuvius from Portici, Joseph Wright
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