內(nèi)米湖景色Lake Nemi_1872__喬治·英尼斯油畫作品欣賞。
內(nèi)米湖位于羅馬東南約17英里處的一座死火山的火山口中，是英尼斯和其他歐美藝術(shù)家最喜歡的主題。該湖位于阿爾巴尼亞山上，這是一個美麗的樹木繁茂的地區(qū)，自古以來一直是遠離炎熱、瘧疾肆虐的羅馬夏季的鄉(xiāng)村勝地。因尼斯在兩次意大利之行（1851-52年和1870-74年）期間訪問了尼米湖，并于1872年夏天在鄰近的阿爾巴諾湖的甘多夫城堡度過。他至少在九幅畫中描繪了尼米湖。在目前的繪畫中，Inness包括尼米鎮(zhèn)，由科隆納城堡獨特的圓塔標(biāo)識，在左邊和湖對面的Genzano鎮(zhèn)。這幅畫是為最近重新發(fā)現(xiàn)的1874年更大的作品而進行的研究，目前這幅作品是私人收藏。
因尼斯選擇了內(nèi)米湖的一個突出的前景，從中可以看出他的觀點。早在18世紀(jì)，理查德·威爾遜（李察威爾遜）（“尼米湖”，1760年，私人收藏）和德比的約瑟夫·賴特（約瑟夫·萊特）（“尼米湖）”，日落，1790年，盧浮宮博物館 等藝術(shù)家就曾在幾乎相同的地點繪制過這一場景。英尼斯在晨光中描繪了這一場景，并在前景中填充了陡峭傾斜的湖岸附近黑暗而強烈的輪廓，從而創(chuàng)造了一幅強烈的構(gòu)圖。他把遠處的湖面和天空渲染成淺色，產(chǎn)生朦朧的遠景效果。
Lake Nemi, which fills the crater of an extinct volcano about seventeen miles southeast of Rome, was a favorite subject for both Inness and other American and European artists. The lake is situated in the Alban Hills, a beautiful wooded area which has served as a rural retreat from the hot, malarial Roman summers since ancient times. Inness visited the Lake Nemi during both of his trips to Italy (1851-52 and 1870-74) and spent the summer of 1872 in Castel Gandolfo on neighboring Lake Albano. He depicted Lake Nemi in at least nine paintings. In the present painting, Inness included the town of Nemi, identified by the distinctive round tower of the Colonna castle, on the left and across the lake the town of Genzano. This painting is a study for a recently rediscovered larger work from 1874 which is presently in a private collection.
Inness chose one of the outstanding prospects of Lake Nemi from which to take his view. As early as the eighteenth century, artists such as Richard Wilson ("Lake Nemi," 1760, private collection) and Joseph Wright of Derby ("Lake Nemi, Sunset," 1790, Mus茅e du Louvre) had painted the scene from nearly the same spot. Inness created a strong composition by portraying the scene in the morning light and filling the foreground with the dark, strong silhouette of the near side of the steeply sloped lake shore. He rendered the far side of the lake and sky in lighter colors, producing the effect of a hazy distant view.
