St. Marks - The Bucentaur
| Reference: | S44176 |
| Author | James Baylis Allen |
| Year: | 1869 |
| Zone: | Venice |
| Printed: | London |
| Measures: | 270 x 170 mm |
€200.00
| Reference: | S44176 |
| Author | James Baylis Allen |
| Year: | 1869 |
| Zone: | Venice |
| Printed: | London |
| Measures: | 270 x 170 mm |
€200.00
Description
The Bucentaur - Venice engraved by J. B. Allen. 1869. From The Art Journal.
It depicts the Grand Canal in Venice during the famous August 15 ceremony.
The Bucintoro was the imposing state galley used by the doges of Venice. Every year, on Ascension Day, they would board this magnificent vessel to celebrate the Venetian rite of "marriage to the sea" to manifest their symbolic bond with the sea and renew Venice's control over the adjacent waters. This event underscored the importance of the Serenissima Republic as a maritime and commercial power. Although the Bucintoro played a ceremonial role, it was also a functional ship, equipped with luxurious cabins and spaces for official meetings. Over the centuries, the galley underwent several renovations and reconstructions, culminating in the most majestic version that became the emblem of Venetian celebrations.
Steel engraving, fine later hand colour, good condition.
James Baylis Allen (1803-1876)
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James Baylis Allen (1803–1876) was a British engraver. Allen, together with Edward and William Radclyffe and the Willmores, belonged to a school of landscape-engravers which arose in Birmingham, where there were numerous engravers working on iron and steel manufactures.
Allen was born in Birmingham, 18 April 1803, the son of a button-manufacturer. As a boy he followed his father's business; then about age 15 he was articled to Josiah Allen, an elder brother and general engraver in Birmingham. Three years later he began his artistic training by attending the drawing classes of John Vincent Barber and Samuel Lines.
In 1824 Allen went to London, and found employment in the studio of the Findens, for whose Royal Gallery of British Art he engraved at a later period "Trent in the Tyrol", after Augustus Wall Callcott.
Allen died after a long illness at Camden Town on the 10th January 1876 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. The grave (no.144) no longer has a marker but the remains of the plinth are still visible.
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James Baylis Allen (1803-1876)
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James Baylis Allen (1803–1876) was a British engraver. Allen, together with Edward and William Radclyffe and the Willmores, belonged to a school of landscape-engravers which arose in Birmingham, where there were numerous engravers working on iron and steel manufactures.
Allen was born in Birmingham, 18 April 1803, the son of a button-manufacturer. As a boy he followed his father's business; then about age 15 he was articled to Josiah Allen, an elder brother and general engraver in Birmingham. Three years later he began his artistic training by attending the drawing classes of John Vincent Barber and Samuel Lines.
In 1824 Allen went to London, and found employment in the studio of the Findens, for whose Royal Gallery of British Art he engraved at a later period "Trent in the Tyrol", after Augustus Wall Callcott.
Allen died after a long illness at Camden Town on the 10th January 1876 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. The grave (no.144) no longer has a marker but the remains of the plinth are still visible.
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