Author/Authors :
ALMELEK İŞMAN, Sibel Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, - Buca Eğitim Fak - Resim-İş Öğretmenliği Bölümü, Turkey
Abstract :
The Mediterranean Sea, located at the junction of Europe, Asia and Africa, and affected by each continent’s culture, is an attractive region with its rich past and nature. European painters who worked in various styles, depicted the Mediterranean region throughout the centuries. When European art is observed from the Renaissance onwards, it can be seen that the people, landscape and the natural products of the Mediterranean have been depicted. This essay will focus on the Mediterranean images from European painting dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. Pictures that represent the Mediterranean in the periods of the Rococo, Neoclassical, Romantic in, Academic Painting and in Impressionism will be explored. Shores, islands, mountains and rivers of the Mediterranean region are mentioned in Greek and Roman mythology. Artists who depict mythological stories on their canvases, used the Mediterranean as a background. Painters were attracted to the archeological richness of the landscape around the Mediterranean Sea and the bridge that she forms between the present day and the ancient days classical of Greek and Roman civilization. The Western as well as the Eastern face of the region was the subject of these paintings. Orientalist pictures represented the cultures of the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean. Both the artists who were born and raised in the Mediterranean and those who came from Northern European countries depicted with enthusiasm the sun, light and beauties of the region.
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European painting , The Mediterranean , 18th century , 19th century
