Scuola veneta (XIX) - Ritratto di Eleonora Duse






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Description from the seller
Rare oil painting on canvas by a 19th-century Venetian painter in good condition.
The frame is not coeval with the work.
The painting measures 21x32 cm.
On the back tag 'Giuseppe Biasutti at the Royal Academy N. 1024 Venice / Deposit.
Nicknamed "the Divine" by Gabriele D'Annunzio, she was the greatest stage actress of her era and one of the greatest of all time, an undisputed symbol of modern theater. She was anything but a commonly understood diva. Contemporary critic Hermann Bahr called her "the greatest actress in the world." Acclaimed, she toured abroad, always performing in Italian. Admired and celebrated abroad, she was misunderstood and unrecognized in her homeland.
Audiences, before falling in love with her stage presence, were "disconcerted." For her, theater was an "existential shock," not an aesthetic or cultural experience. She touched deep, previously unseen layers, pushing the actor's art to extreme limits. Her art was elusive and painful; it was defined as a "spiritual phenomenon" capable of "confiding in the unknown." Along with other leading figures in the thought and art of her time, from Nietzsche to Ibsen, she transformed the consciousness of the 20th century. Many great masters of the 20th century considered her a companion on this journey.
Provenance of the Italian antique market
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Seller's Story
Rare oil painting on canvas by a 19th-century Venetian painter in good condition.
The frame is not coeval with the work.
The painting measures 21x32 cm.
On the back tag 'Giuseppe Biasutti at the Royal Academy N. 1024 Venice / Deposit.
Nicknamed "the Divine" by Gabriele D'Annunzio, she was the greatest stage actress of her era and one of the greatest of all time, an undisputed symbol of modern theater. She was anything but a commonly understood diva. Contemporary critic Hermann Bahr called her "the greatest actress in the world." Acclaimed, she toured abroad, always performing in Italian. Admired and celebrated abroad, she was misunderstood and unrecognized in her homeland.
Audiences, before falling in love with her stage presence, were "disconcerted." For her, theater was an "existential shock," not an aesthetic or cultural experience. She touched deep, previously unseen layers, pushing the actor's art to extreme limits. Her art was elusive and painful; it was defined as a "spiritual phenomenon" capable of "confiding in the unknown." Along with other leading figures in the thought and art of her time, from Nietzsche to Ibsen, she transformed the consciousness of the 20th century. Many great masters of the 20th century considered her a companion on this journey.
Provenance of the Italian antique market
Fast shipping with secure packaging
