Artist: João Cristino Da Silva
Date: 1860
Size: 43 x 79 cm
Museum: National Museum of Contemporary Art - Museu do Chiado (Lisboa, Portugal)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Author of seascapes, Cristino intends to highlight the romanticist feeling in the understanding of Nature, accentuating the drama of a shipwreck observed in the darkness of the night, where a turbulent sea stands out. It is a tragic and real event, probably drawing on the visions of paintings such as the Radeau de la Méduse by Géricault in 1818-19 and the sinking of the S. Pedro de Alcantara by J. Pillement in 1786, which he had almost certainly seen. An innovative technical quality of the representation of the movement of the wave, in realistic transparencies, despite the scenographic aspect of a romantic oculus lighting projecting from a cloud thickening to the sea and sand, connects this navy with its preoccupation of grasping the
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