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Carlo Bonavia

Italian, active 1751-1788
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Carlo Bonavia was an Italian painter known for idyllic landscape paintings, engravings and drawings. He was active from 1740 until his death. He is thought to be from Rome, but worked in Naples from about 1751 to 1788. He was trained in the Neapolitan landscape tradition of Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) and Leonardo Coccorante (1680–1750), but was much more strongly influenced by the work of Claude Joseph Vernet, who visited Naples in 1737 and 1746.

Bonavia’s paintings share with Vernet’s a rococo palette of pale blues, creamy yellows, pinks and soft green, as well as an atmospheric, rather than analytical, approach to landscape. Like Vernet, Bonavia painted capricci in which real features of the Neapolitan countryside were placed in imaginary settings. Bonavia’s idyllic landscapes were popular souvenirs of the Grand Tour. Among his patrons were Lord Brudenell and Count Karl Joseph Firmian, the Austrian ambassador to Naples 1753-8. Bonavia had a very successful career and was praised by Pietro Zani in his Enciclopedia Metodica Critico Ragionata delle Belle Arte (1794) as a fine painter of views and history subjects.

The Accademia di San Luca (Rome), the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museo di Capodimonte (Naples) and Stourhead (Wiltshire, England) are among the public collections having paintings by Carlo Bonavia.

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A River Landscape With Figures Reclining In The Foreground

A River Landscape With Figures Reclining In The Foreground

Carlo Bonavia (Italian, active 1751-1788)
Landscape
Shipwreck in a Rocky Inlet

Shipwreck in a Rocky Inlet

Carlo Bonavia (Italian, active 1751-1788)
Landscape
A Storm Off A Rocky Coast

A Storm Off A Rocky Coast

Carlo Bonavia (Italian, active 1751-1788)
Landscape
View Of A Harbor At Dawn, With Fishermen Along The Port In The Foreground

View Of A Harbor At Dawn, With Fishermen Along The Port In The Foreground (1754)

Carlo Bonavia (Italian, active 1751-1788)
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Fire in the island

Fire in the island (1758)

Carlo Bonavia (Italian, active 1751-1788)
Landscape
A storm off a rocky coast, with a shipwreck in the foreground and a fort on the rocky shoreline above 

A storm off a rocky coast, with a shipwreck in the foreground and a fort on the rocky shoreline above  (1757)

Carlo Bonavia (Italian, active 1751-1788)
Landscape
Explosion in a harbour

Explosion in a harbour (1789)

Carlo Bonavia (Italian, active 1751-1788)
Landscape
A volcano erupting at night, possibly Mount Etna

A volcano erupting at night, possibly Mount Etna

Carlo Bonavia (Italian, active 1751-1788)
Landscape
Naples, with the Castel dell’Ovo

Naples, with the Castel dell’Ovo

Carlo Bonavia (Italian, active 1751-1788)
Landscape
The Lanterna del Molo, Naples with Vesuvius beyond

The Lanterna del Molo, Naples with Vesuvius beyond

Carlo Bonavia (Italian, active 1751-1788)
Landscape

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