View of Bracciano

Painting by Paul Bril

View of Bracciano

Artist| Paul Bril
Year| c. 1620[1]
Catalogue| 20078P34
Medium| Oil on canvas
Dimensions| 74.5 cm × 163.6 cm (29.33 in × 64.40 in)
Location| Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

View of Bracciano is an oil-on-canvas painting by Flemish painter Paul Bril. It was painted in the early 1620s, and is currently housed at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.[2][3] The painting was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2007.

## Painting

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The painting is a view of Bracciano, a small town today part of the Italian region of Lazio (in Bril's day within the Papal States), 30 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of Rome.

Bril completed this work during his stay in Italy, where he probably arrived in 1582,[4] and went on to become "perhaps the most popular painter of landscapes in Rome in the late 16th and early 17th centuries."[5]

In the foreground, an armed carriage drawn by six horses and followed by two dogs is travelling to a castle commanding a small town. Three commoners took off their hats as the carriage passes by, while a herdsman leans on his staff. From the carriage on the bottom right corner, the undulate road leads crosswise to the town, which descends to the lake (Lake of Bracciano) from left to right. Topographical representations like the View of Bracciano are rare in Bril.[6] He completed this painting in the 1620s.[2][3]

The Roy and Marjory Edwards Bequest Fund and the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation acquired the painting in 2007.[3]

## References

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1. ^ Claude Gellée; Peter Russell (2017). Delphi Complete Paintings of Claude Lorrain (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. ISBN 978-1-78656-505-1.
2. ^ a b "View of Bracciano". Google Arts and Culture. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
3. ^ a b c "View of Bracciano". Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
4. ^ Nicola Courtright. "Paul Bril." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 26 September 2016
5. ^ "Paul Bril". Britannica. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
6. ^ Louisa Wood Ruby (1999). Paul Bril The Drawings. Isd. ISBN 978-2-503-50577-0.

## External links

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* Painting at the Art Gallery of South Australia
* Painting at Google Arts & Culture

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Paul Bril

Paintings|

* Mountainous Landscape with Saint Jerome (1592)
* Stag Hunt (c. 1590–1595)
* Self-Portrait (c. 1595–1600)
* River View with Rocks (1601) (anomymous copy)
* View of Bracciano (c. 1620)
* Diana and Callisto (1620s)

Related|

* Matthijs Bril (brother)

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