{"id":4258,"date":"2020-05-16T22:16:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T20:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issimoissimo.wpengine.com\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2021-05-06T17:22:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T15:22:15","slug":"painting-the-bay-of-naples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issimoissimo.com\/coltissimo\/painting-the-bay-of-naples\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting the Bay of Naples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">La bella Napoli<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> Those who have spent a bit of time in Naples know that every self-effacing Neapolitan <em>nonna<\/em> has a reproduction of the <strong>classic Gulf of Naples gouache<\/strong> in her dining room. You know the one the dramatic rise of Mt. Vesuvius standing forebodingly in the background, the sun-kissed Mediterranean sea hugging up against the distant city landscape of Naples, the light cast just so according to the time of day \u2013 sunrise, midday, sunset \u2014 all framed by the emerald beauty of the countryside and perhaps a few cheery townspeople dressed in traditional garb in the foreground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Painting The Grand Tour <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A little kitsch, never clich\u00e9, the <strong>Neapolitan gouaches<\/strong> can be traced back to 18<sup>th<\/sup> and 19th centuries when the opaque <strong>watercolour depictions of coastal Naples<\/strong> were a hot commodity for European aristocrats who traveled to the Mediterranean city to experience cultural, artistic and architectural pleasures. This was the epoch known as <strong>the Grand Tour, <\/strong>when Europe\u2019s upper crust immersed themselves throughout the<em> bel paese<\/em> and Naples, in particular, thanks to the city\u2019s invaluable heritage of monuments, art collections and landscapes envied and praised by illustrious personalities such as <strong>Montesquieu, Goethe, Lamartine, Stendhal and Dickens<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1409\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/issimoissimo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/golfo-3.jpg?fit=1024%2C721&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/issimoissimo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/golfo-3.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/issimoissimo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/golfo-3-800x564.jpg 800w, https:\/\/issimoissimo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/golfo-3-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/issimoissimo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/golfo-3-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/issimoissimo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/golfo-3-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/issimoissimo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/golfo-3-1536x1082.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/issimoissimo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/golfo-3-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/issimoissimo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/golfo-3-60x42.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Naples and the <strong>Neapolitan school of gouache<\/strong> flourished during the Grand Tour in the 17th- and 18th. The city, and its stunning Vesuvius, represented an antiquity lost and a world to discover. Nobility craved these prestigious European landscape paintings, in particular Bay of Naples scenes detailing the<strong> coastal panorama, the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius,<\/strong> the monuments and discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Neapolitan gouache<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The 19th century engraver and painter <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacob_Philipp_Hackert\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#6b1b32\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Filippo Hackert<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is considered the father of the Neapolitan gouaches. Invited by Ferdinand IV of Bourbon, Hackert taught Johann Wolfgang von Goethe how to paint, while the author penned his famous diary <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.it\/Viaggio-Italia-Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe\/dp\/8804632895\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#6b1b32\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Viaggio in Italia<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Hackert was using gouache, an opaque watercolour made of natural pigment, water, a binding agent and a secret the artist wouldn\u2019t tell. From a distance, gouache paintings seem almost like oil, but upon close inspection, a gouache takes on a rich translucency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ignasi x ISSIMO x Dedar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward two hundred years and Neapolitan gouaches are making a contemporary comeback, thanks to a fresh collaboration between <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/shop\/?attro-brand=257\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#6b1b32\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>ISSIMO, famed Italian interior design brand, Dedar Milano<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and one of the world\u2019s most talented emerging artists, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/monrealism-a-new-kind-of-scene\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#6b1b32\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Ignasi Monreal<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. How did this glamorous m\u00e9nage-\u00e0-trois come about one asks? It all began at an old print stall at the antiquarian market in Rome\u2019s Piazza Fontanella Borghese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After finding an original print of a Neapolitan gouache at the market, Marie-Louise immediately framed it and hung the print in Mezzatorre\u2019s reception and then began adding to the collection.&nbsp; Original Neapolitan gouaches are found throughout the reception and property\u2019s guest rooms. In addition to her gouache penchant, Marie-Louise has always had a fascination for trompe l\u2019oeil in particular the trompe l\u2019oeil rooms of the Vatican and Villa Farnesina. For years, Marie-Louise has been wanting to recreate an optical illusion of a tented \u201clandscape room\u201d using a gouache-like wallpaper of the scene of the Gulf of Naples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Combining Ignasi\u2019s incredible skill at reinterpreting traditional painting techniques of Dedar\u2019s luxurious fabric design, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/shop\/?attro-brand=257\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#6b1b32\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>ISSIMO\u2019s one-of-a-kind wallpaper<\/strong><\/span><\/a> was created. The wallpaper features five custom designed panels with digital interpretations of Dedar\u2019s striped fabrics in the trompe l&#8217;oeil technique, a nod to the tented rooms of Italy\u2019s oldest palazzos and the Vatican, and a centre panel presenting Ignasi\u2019s digital version of the Neapolitan gouache scene depicting the Gulf of Naples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/prodotto\/golfo-di-napoli-wall-panel\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#6b1b32\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Golfo di Napoli<\/strong><\/span><\/a> wallpaper is available in 15-meter rolls weighing 1.5 kg. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/prodotto\/alumnissimo-wall-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#6b1b32\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Original Dedar Milano fabric<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is also sold separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gouaches paintings depicting the Bay of Naples have caused a pictorial scene since the Grand Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9406,"featured_media":4260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[]},"categories":[483,287,288],"tags":[377,313,312,371,365,366],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2.1 (Yoast SEO v22.0) - 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