Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: The Kiss
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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The Kiss
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Image View:
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Overall view without frame
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Creator:
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Francesco Hayez (Italian painter, 1791-1882)
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Location:
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repository: Brera Museum (Milan, Lombardy, Italy) 6335
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Location Note:
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Via Brera 28
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GPS:
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+45.471944+9.188056
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Date:
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1859 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Nineteenth century; Romantic
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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112 cm (height) x 88 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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human figure; Risorgimento e unità d’Italia; Reunification of Italy
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Description:
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The canvas was shown at the Brera Exhibition of 1859 which, held a few months after the entry of Victor Emanuel II and Napoleon III into Milan, celebrated the successful conclusion of the struggles of the Risorgimento, but did not enter the Pinacoteca until 1886, as a legacy from Alfonso Maria Visconti, who had commissioned the picture. It is perhaps the most widely reproduced Italian painting of the whole of the 19th century, created with the aim of symbolizing the love of the motherland and thirst for life on the part of the young nation. The medieval costumes are typical of his historical Romantic paintings. (Source: Brera Pinacoteca [website]; http://pinacotecabrera.org/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-HAYEZ-TK-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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