Foster, LauraGeorgi, KarenBarreras, Leah Lonsdale2024-10-212024-10-212023Barreras, Leah Lonsdale. "When Canvases Converse: The Dialectical Nature of an Eighteenth-Century Pendant Attributed to Charles Louis Clérisseau". Master's Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2023.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/550Master of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Fall 2023.Two unsigned eighteenth-century landscape paintings that belong to the Galleria Corsini in Rome are a pair of vedute ideate, or architectural fantasies containing recognizable ancient Roman ruins set within idealized landscapes. First appearing in the Palazzo Corsini art collection in 1784, the paintings have been left relatively understudied since then: they have been recognized as a pendant, but their content and meaning has not been analyzed. The pendant’s dialectical nature is the main topic of this thesis. Part of this thesis supports the recent attribution to French painter Charles-Louis Clérisseau with an investigation of new information and the tracing of the visual elements and iconography through a French genealogy. The next part of this thesis will be on the analysis of the iconography and what visual tools are used to create its pendant bond, with the most significant and strengthening one being the use of the human narrative. I will be dissecting what elements within the paintings are conversing in which composition and knowledge of ancient Rome are used to create the link. The final section treats the context of the paintings initial display in the Palazzo Corsini as of 1784, adding another level to their already-heightened state of communicative nature by the inclusion of other paintings in the room, all of which together were curated with care. By looking at how the Corsini pendant and the other paintings are displayed in the room sheds light on their display purpose as well as potential meaning they had for the Corsini family.viii, 70 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Charles-Louis Clérisseau, 1721-1820Galleria Corsini (Rome, Italy)Italian paintingThesis