DOI Heft:
No. 201 (December, 1909)
DOI Artikel:Brosch, L.: Emma Ciardi painter of old Italian gardens
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0224
Emma
Ciardi
In the painting called Le Rendez-Vous Mile.
Ciardi has interpreted with telling effect that spirit
of indolence and love of luxurious display which
characterised the aristocracy of the eighteenth
century. Here everything is pervaded by grace-
fulness and kept in subdued tones, and the entire
picture is redolent of the pleasure-seeking and
colour-loving Rococo period.
We must take a hasty glance at our other
pictures. A little jewel is L'Adieu, silvery-grey
in tones, in which a gay cavalier is taking leave
of his lady, a blonde whose emerald - green
corsage gives piquancy to her robe of white.
In Rondo, another picture of small dimensions, the
lady stationed on the semi-circular terrace and
gazing in the distance is wearing a dress of violet
colour and a rose in her perruque ; while red and
yellow are the colours in which the lady in Fra
Ombra e Sole ('Twixt Shadow and Sunlight) is
arrayed, a scheme which accords well with the
greens of the picture and gives to the whole a
completely harmonious effect. A distinguished
piece of painting, too, is II Labirinto (The Laby-
rinth).
As a loyal Venetian it was only natural that the
Church of St. Mark should be the subject of one
of Emma Ciardi's paintings. The picture repro-
duced in our illustration shows the famous edifice
as seen from the old Clock Tower. Flooded
with light, the sacred fane, with its marble
masonry, its Oriental stones and gilt, its mosaics
and fantastic figures, looks like a dream-phantom.
In the background, we get a glimpse of the island
of San Giorgio bathed in light. The colour scheme
is one in which the juxtaposition of cold and warm
tones is accomplished with peculiar skill.
Emma Ciardi is still young in years, but can
already look back upon a tolerably long career as
an artist. The contemplation of her paintings
evokes in one the sentiment to which Immanuel
Kant has given such masterly expression in his
treatise " On the Sublime and the Beautiful." In
these pictures there is none of that so-called
feminine sweetness which one so often finds in the
paintings of women-artists. In so far as the quality
of her work is concerned she might have been a
man, but still one endowed with a highly sensitive
perception and feeling L. B.
"rondo"
202
by emma ciardi
Ciardi
In the painting called Le Rendez-Vous Mile.
Ciardi has interpreted with telling effect that spirit
of indolence and love of luxurious display which
characterised the aristocracy of the eighteenth
century. Here everything is pervaded by grace-
fulness and kept in subdued tones, and the entire
picture is redolent of the pleasure-seeking and
colour-loving Rococo period.
We must take a hasty glance at our other
pictures. A little jewel is L'Adieu, silvery-grey
in tones, in which a gay cavalier is taking leave
of his lady, a blonde whose emerald - green
corsage gives piquancy to her robe of white.
In Rondo, another picture of small dimensions, the
lady stationed on the semi-circular terrace and
gazing in the distance is wearing a dress of violet
colour and a rose in her perruque ; while red and
yellow are the colours in which the lady in Fra
Ombra e Sole ('Twixt Shadow and Sunlight) is
arrayed, a scheme which accords well with the
greens of the picture and gives to the whole a
completely harmonious effect. A distinguished
piece of painting, too, is II Labirinto (The Laby-
rinth).
As a loyal Venetian it was only natural that the
Church of St. Mark should be the subject of one
of Emma Ciardi's paintings. The picture repro-
duced in our illustration shows the famous edifice
as seen from the old Clock Tower. Flooded
with light, the sacred fane, with its marble
masonry, its Oriental stones and gilt, its mosaics
and fantastic figures, looks like a dream-phantom.
In the background, we get a glimpse of the island
of San Giorgio bathed in light. The colour scheme
is one in which the juxtaposition of cold and warm
tones is accomplished with peculiar skill.
Emma Ciardi is still young in years, but can
already look back upon a tolerably long career as
an artist. The contemplation of her paintings
evokes in one the sentiment to which Immanuel
Kant has given such masterly expression in his
treatise " On the Sublime and the Beautiful." In
these pictures there is none of that so-called
feminine sweetness which one so often finds in the
paintings of women-artists. In so far as the quality
of her work is concerned she might have been a
man, but still one endowed with a highly sensitive
perception and feeling L. B.
"rondo"
202
by emma ciardi