Capriccio
Related: art - fantastic art - landscape - Piranesi
Capricci (1617) - Jacques Callot
Image sourced here.See also: 1600s - landscape - mannerism - grotesque - capriccio - France - Jacques Callot
Capriccio with the Colosseum (1743-44) - B. Bellotto
Definition
- A type of landscape painting that places particular works of architecture in an unusual setting.
- An art term denoting the grotesque, playful, fantastic, transgressing the academic norms.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capriccio [Oct 2005]
German definition
Capriccio als Begriff der Kunsttheorie bezeichnet den absichtlichen, lustvollen Regelverstoß, die phantasievolle, spielerische Überschreitung der akademischen Normen, ohne die Norm außer Kraft zu setzen.
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