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JONATHAN PIKE | Palazzo da Mulo Morosini
Oil on Board
48.5 x 33 cms / 19 x 13 inches
Signed and dated Jonathan Pike '22 (lower left)
English painter, Jonathan Pike, perfectly captures the urban landscape of Venice in this Italian cityscape painting. Pike depicts the Palazzo da Mulo Morosini, a 15th-century palace located along the Grand Canal. The artist captures the detail of the Gothic architecture of the palace which played residence to Countess Annina Morosini, an emblematic figure of cultural and intellectual Venetian society throughout the 19th and 20th century, until her death in 1954. Pike is broadly acknowledged to be one of the finest architectural painters of his generation and the artist's focus on the architectural heritage in the subject of this work perfectly displays this.
- Jonathan Pike is broadly acknowledged to be one of the finest architectural painters of his generation. A watercolourist first and foremost, he also paints in gouache and oils. Jonathans attention to architectural heritage and the decay of manmade objects is perfectly articulated in his work, from a classical structure in Venice to a British coastal scene. Texture and light are brought together to create dramatic renderings where attention to detail contributes to the passion and emotion of the scene. An avid traveler, Jonathan specializes in cityscapes of Rome, Florence, Havana, London, Dublin and elsewhere, but it is his exquisite Venetian scenes that have attracted a particularly keen following amongst collectors worldwide. Jonathan first visited Venice in 1975, and has returned on many occasions to produce his mesmeric studies of the atmosphere and light of this unique city.
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