{"product_id":"neapolitan-school-bay-of-naples-with-vesuvius-in-eruption-original-late-19th-century-oil-painting-kd-883","title":"Neapolitan School, Bay of Naples with Vesuvius in Eruption – Late 19th-century oil painting","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original late 19th-century oil painting – Neapolitan School, Bay of Naples with Vesuvius in Eruption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tranquil late-19th-century Neapolitan School view looking across the Bay of Naples towards the smoking Vesuvius. A lone fisherman tends to his nets in the boat in the foreground; the salmon-pink facades of the Strada del Molo and Castel Sant'Elmo shimmer in the distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis charming oil painting is a typical example of a Neapolitan School veduta produced for the Grand Tour market in the late 19th century. It shares with the Neapolitan gouaches of the time a simplified use of motif and iconography to communicate the iconic view. The buildings are rendered as brief suggestions of flattened multi-windowed blocks, the foreground figure is anonymous and the boat is rendered with economy and fluidity. The style resembles that of the Neapolitan School artist Count Antonio Coppola (1839–1916), who created numerous Grand Tour views that were highly sought after by European travellers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOil on canvas on stretchers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54853474681161,"sku":"KD-883","price":380.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/KD-883.jpg?v=1784033507","url":"https:\/\/somersetandwood.com\/products\/neapolitan-school-bay-of-naples-with-vesuvius-in-eruption-original-late-19th-century-oil-painting-kd-883","provider":"Somerset \u0026 Wood Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}