Excerpts from the book “La Serenissima”
At the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Titian’s and the 100th anniversary of Claude Monet’s death, this book is dedicated to the theme of “Beauty and Transience”. The contributions other Venice-loving artists with important anniversaries in 2026 have made to modernity (Turner, Vivaldi, and Richard Wagner) is also honored in its pages. While Venice has never been destroyed, it nevertheless embodies the continuity of transience. William Turner and Claude Monet loved visiting the city to depict its melancholy beauty. Monet’s last trip before dedicating himself to his almost abstract late water lily works, had also taken him to Venice. The revolution of landscape in art, however, first occurred during the Renaissance.
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Art gift book “La Serenissima” – The Beauty of Transience
Homage to Titian and Claude Monet
Book series LOUNGE 2 – volume XV
Editor: Kurt Ries
At the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Titian’s and the 100th anniversary of Claude Monet’s death, this book is dedicated to the theme of “Beauty and Transience”. The contributions other Venice-loving artists with important anniversaries in 2026 have made to modernity (Turner, Vivaldi, and Richard Wagner) is also honored in its pages.
William Turner and the Roots of Modernism in Rhine Romanticism
Excerpts from the book “Landscapes for William Turner”
In painting, the term “landscape” did not exist until the 15th / 16th century. While the frescoes of Roman villas featured nature in their depictions of gardens, medieval art neglected it completely. It was the zeitgeist shift during the Renaissance that restored people’s interest in life before death, thus ringing in the radical changes that eventually led to the modern era. As people turned away from the afterlife, they began to explore nature, which led artists to incorporate perspective into their work. The element of landscape that had previously been perceived as dark and hostile was now elevated to a sublime means to express aesthetic beauty.
Art gift book ‘Landscapes for William Turner – Landschaften für William Turner’
William Turner and the roots of modernism
Book series LOUNGE 2 – volume XIII
Editor: Kurt Ries
In painting, the term “landscape” did not exist until the 15th / 16th century. While the frescoes of Roman villas featured nature in their depictions of gardens, medieval art neglected it completely. It was the zeitgeist shift during the Renaissance that restored people’s interest in life before death, thus ringing in the radical changes that eventually led to the modern era. As people turned away from the afterlife, they began to explore nature, which led artists to incorporate perspective into their work.