LONGHI, Pietro (b. 1702, Venezia, d. 1783, Venezia) The Ridotto 1740's Oil on canvas Raccotta Salon, Venice In Longhi's pictures manners are painted with a decorousness that becomes insipid; in most of the pictures nothing is happening and the figures are sometimes barely composed into any coherent relationship. Longhi's justification is not really by any artistic standard but through a new claim: that what he depicts is true. His pictures were not collected internationally as souvenirs of Venice, but must have hung on the walls of actual rooms similar to those he depicts: reassuring in thei
GLIX-115-3D9H98G
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GLIX Prime
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LONGHI, Pietro (b. 1702, Venezia, d. 1783, Venezia) The Ridotto 1740's Oil on canvas Raccotta Salon, Venice In Longhi's pictures manners are painted with a decorousness that becomes insipid; in most of the pictures nothing is happening and the figures are sometimes barely composed into any coherent relationship. Longhi's justification is not really by any artistic standard but through a new claim: that what he depicts is true. His pictures were not collected internationally as souvenirs of Venice, but must have hung on the walls of actual rooms similar to those he depicts: reassuring in thei