Johann George Hertel - M199

The subject reflects the characteristics of the Vedutismo movement. Vedutismo is a genre born in the 18th century and developed primarily in Venice. View painters aimed to represent a landscape objectively and scientifically, placing it as the protagonist of the work. Leading exponents of the vedutista genre were Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, and Francesco Guardi. There are essentially two types of vedute: the realistic one, taken exactly from reality, and the "capriccio," a fanciful view invented by the painter. The engravings of Johann Georg Hertel can be considered an evolution of Vedutismo, as they were reworked in the midst of the Neoclassical climate and already show some anticipations of the later Romantic spirit. Hertel's vedute are mostly inspired by ruins and small country villages, greatly developing the "capriccio" genre, through which he recreated, according to his imagination, highly evocative landscapes of ruins.

In this sense, Hertel's engravings fit squarely into the Romantic aesthetic of the picturesque, that is, the fascination with evocatively decaying and overgrown ruins. From a technical standpoint, Hertel's engravings always stand out for their undisputed technical quality, in a clear and didactic reproduction of the subject.

Johann Georg Hertel was an important German engraver who lived in Augsburg between 1700 and 1775.

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