Nerli
Subtitle: An Italian Painter in the South Pacific
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: June 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781869403355
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Criticism and interpretation; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Nerli, Girolamo Pieri,; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers; 1860-1926; Catalogs
Description: A study of the Italian painter Girolamo Pieri Nerli, who spent the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Australia and New Zealand, and is best known as a teacher of Frances Hodgkins and Charles Conder and portraitist of the ailing Robert Louis Stevenson. Nerli painted a great variety of subjects in a wide range of styles and is associated with the Heidelberg School in Australia and with the introduction of Impressionism to the Antipodes. Though he returned to Europe, his most important work was done in the South Pacific and most of it remains here.