Post by Anna-Marie Kroupová

Happy to share a new short article on Lorenzo Butti’s two seascapes, written together with Thomas Zimmel and Karl Klaus Körner. 🌊 The idea for the text came about after the Viva Venezia exhibition at the Belvedere in 2022 when Thomas noticed that something in the title didn’t quite add up: a "Scirocco" should depict a storm, yet the painting shows a completely calm sea... This small mismatch sent us into the archives, and we were able to not only reconstruct the original titles but also the histories of the work/s. As it turned out, the painting doesn’t depict Venice at all, but rather Trieste; and there is also a conscious counterpart that depicts Venice! So these two paintings not only reveal Butti’s local patriotism as a Trieste painter – but, more importantly, also the maritime and imperial ambitions of the Habsburg monarchy around 1850. ⚓ 👉 Read at the Belvedere Museum Research Journal here: https://lnkd.in/d6EwDrgj Heritage Studies Vienna