Loggia, Villa Giulia, Rome

John Singer Sargent American

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In 1907, at the height of his career as a portrait painter, Sargent declared that he would no longer paint portraits on commission. He also traveled more frequently and took long annual summer holidays, often to Italy, where he reveled in painting the Mediterranean sunlight. Around this time, he painted several architectural studies at the Villa Giulia, located on the grounds of the Borghese Gardens in northern Rome. The villa, which today houses a museum of antiquities, was built in the 1550s for Pope Julius III. In this watercolor Sargent depicts a detail of the three-arched loggia of the garden court from below. He suggests the presence—and absence—of light on the stone with the contrasting warm and cool tones of his palette.

Loggia, Villa Giulia, Rome, John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London), Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, American

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Loggia, Villa Giulia, Rome, John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London), Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, American
Loggia, Villa Giulia, Rome, John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London), Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, American
Loggia, Villa Giulia, Rome, John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London), Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, American
Loggia, Villa Giulia, Rome, John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London), Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, American
Loggia, Villa Giulia, Rome, John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London), Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, American
Loggia, Villa Giulia, Rome, John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London), Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, American

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