WUTKY, Michael
(b. 1739, Krems, d. 1822, Wien)

The Campi Phlegraei near Naples and the Bay of Baiae

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Oil on canvas, 201 x 250 cm
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

In Wutky's many scenes of the mud fumaroles in the Campi Phlegraei he combines the eighteenth-century idea of the picturesque with the spirit of the Enlightenment.




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