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It’s time for a new partnership, this time with the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen. 
We hope you will enjoy their collection of masterpieces. Today we start with CW Eckersberg, known as the “Father of Danish Painting”.
The painting is in several ways an anomaly in Ecksberg’s Roman work. His work employs a strictly symmetrical composition, with unnamed buildings forming a backdrop to the tree-lined pergola and the tree at the doorway. This time, Ecksberg subordinates the building to the more informal structure of plants. He did not indicate the exact location of the pergola. Exberg only selects subjects that cannot be pinpointed to a specific location in a few cases. Contrary to his usual practice, this work sees Ecksberg use a relatively wide range of brushstrokes, which makes the painting more sketchy than any other scene he has created for Rome. In this case, it’s unlikely that the choice was a lack of time that prevented him from going through every detail carefully.
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PPS Exberg wasn’t the only artist to fall in love with Italy, check out John Singer Sargent’s stunning views of the Italian island of Capri . <3
34 x 28.5 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst
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