| Il bagno della pastora | |
|---|---|
| English: The shepherd's bath | |
 | |
| Artist | Basilio Cascella  |
| Year | 1903 |
| Medium | oil paint, canvas |
| Dimensions | 163 cm (64 in) × 225 cm (89 in) |
| Location | Pescara, Italy |
Il bagno della pastora (English:The shepherd's bath) is a 1903 oil painting on canvas by the Italian painter Basilio Cascella. It is in the Basilio Cascella Civic Museum in Pescara. It depicts a young woman in a typically bucolic setting of Abruzzo.
Description
editCascella began painting the picture in 1899 at his studio and lithographic plant in the Porta Nuovain neighborhood of Pescara.[1] In 1903, he finished the painting and sent it to the Venice Biennale. However, the exhibition organizers refused it due to its belated arrival. A postal mistake in returning the painting caused it to remain at the Ancona railway station until it was found over thirty years later.[2][3]
The models were Concetta Palmerio, Cascella's wife and favorite model,[4] and a friend, Vincenzo Bucci.[2] The painting displays a pastoral setting that recalls the typical rural world of Abruzzo, the artist's native region, and which constitutes a recurring element in his art.[5] The painting includes a natural and innocent eroticism, depicting a primordial condition where nakedness is natural.[6] It also has a mythological quality.[5] The youth, who wears short trousers possibly made from lynx or goat skin fur, has feet that are slightly hoof-like, and has a set of Zampogna pipes laid upon the rock in the background, bears a resemblance to a faun[7] or a young Pan.
References
edit- ^ "Museo Cascella". muvi.org (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2009-01-06.
- ^ a b "Basilio e la dinastia dei Cascella" [Basilio and the Cascella dynasty]. Il Convivio del Pensiero Critico (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-11-09. Cite error: The named reference "Il Convivio del Pensiero Critico" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Giacintuoci 1994.
- ^ Marinacci, Sandro (2012-03-17). "Pescara, museo Cascella: i tesori di una dinastia" [Pescara, Cascella museum: the treasures of a dynasty]. Il Centro (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-11-08.
- ^ a b Rando 1998, p. 44.
- ^ Russo & Battistella 1997, p. 88.
- ^ "Prima lezione" (in Italian). 2017-11-19. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
Sources
edit- Russo, Umberto; Battistella, Franco (1997). Pescara : arte e città fra '800 e '900 : primo catalogo delle opere d'arte nelle collezioni pubbliche [Pescara: art and city between the 19th and 20th centuries: the first catalog of works of art in public collections] (in Italian). Pescara: Carsa. ISBN 9788885854420. OCLC 38752818.
- Giacintuoci, Walter (1994), "Il Museo Basilio Cascella" [The Basilio Cascella Museum], Abruzzo : Rivista dell'Istituto di studi abruzzesi. (in Italian), 32, Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, ISSN 0001-3366, OCLC 799512285
- Rando, Cinzia (1998). Pescara e provincia : il litorale, i parchi nazionali, i borghi antichi, le abbazie [Pescara and province: the coast, national parks, ancient villages, abbeys] (in Italian). Milano Pescara: Touring club italiano Provincia di Pescara. ISBN 9788836511921. OCLC 797734351.
Further reading
edit- Tizio, Franco (2006). Basilio Cascella : la vita (1860-1950) (in Italian). Altino (Chieti): Ianieri. ISBN 9788888302232. OCLC 70798778.
External links
edit- "Museo Civico Basilio Cascella – Museo delle Genti d'Abruzzo" [Basilio Cascella Civic Museum - People's Museum of Abruzzo]. gentidabruzzo.com (in Italian).