Achille Vianelli Voer een
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een galerie.
Kies een stemming en de kamer zelf antwoordt — het licht koelt of warmt op, de sfeer verandert van tempo, en alleen de werken die dat gevoel belichamen, treden naar voren uit de duisternis. De rest verdwijnt in de schaduw.
Achille Vianelli
Achille Vianelli (1803-1894): A Painter of Nostalgia Achille Vianelli, an Italian landscape painter of the Posillipo School, was born in Porto Maurizio, Italy, on December 21st, 1803. His father, Giovan Battista Vianelli, originally from Veneto, had married a Parisian and consequently changed his name to Vianelly or Viennelly and assumed French nationality, becoming Napoleon’s consular agent in Porto Maurizio. Achille kept his new surn
ame and French nationality until after 1938. From Porto Maurizio the family moved to Otranto, where Achille spent his youth. In 1819 he was in Naples, to study painting; but his father and sister returned to France, to reunite with him only in 1826. In Naples Achille became an intimate of Giacinto Gigante, together with whom he studied the landscape taken from life, attending for a few months the school of Wolfgang Hüber - a German pai…