Agia Paraskevi，伊庇鲁斯，希腊 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Agia Paraskevi，伊庇鲁斯，希腊
品名（英）	Agia Paraskevi, Epirus, Greece
入馆年号	2013年，2013.110
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Edward Lear【1812 至 1888】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1857
创作地区
分类	图画（Drawings）
尺寸	页: 12 15/16 x 20 1/8 英寸 (32.8 x 51.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	李尔王是一位穿越意大利、希腊和中东的不知疲倦的旅行者，他绘制了被威斯敏斯特学院院长亚瑟·斯坦利称为"地形诗"的画作。1855年至1857年间，他在科孚岛过冬，并在希腊西北部进行了为期三周的旅行。山脉很难穿透，但李尔王发现的戏剧性景观回报了他的努力。在这里，他描绘了Drosopigi（Kantsiko）村Agia Paraskevi小教堂后面的一个壮观的遗址。陡峭的悬崖直冲河谷，远处是白雪皑皑的山脉，左下角独特的声音"夜莺，下面是昏暗的咆哮"，让人想起了李尔王对这一场景的喜悦。"根据李尔王的传记作者维维安·诺克斯的说法："那是在19世纪50年代后半叶。。。当[这位艺术家]放弃了成为一名受欢迎的[油画]画家的希望时，他创作了他最好的水彩画。他熟练地控制了自己的媒介，将强有力的构图与强烈的线条以及流畅的绘画自由结合在一起，这将使他成为英国最伟大的水彩画画家之一。"
介绍（英）	Lear was a tireless traveler through Italy, Greece and the Middle East, making drawings that Arthur Stanley, dean of Westminster described as "topographical poetry." Between 1855 and 1857, he wintered in Corfu and made the present work during a three-week tour through northwestern Greece. The mountains were difficult to penetrate but the dramatic landscapes Lear discovered repaid the effort. Here he depicts a spectacular site behind the small church of Agia Paraskevi in the village of Drosopigi (Kantsiko). Sheer cliffs plunge down to a river gorge, snow-capped mountains are indicated in the distance, and Lear’s delight with the setting is suggested by his evocative notes at lower left on its distinctive sounds, "Nightingales, dim roar below." According to Lear’s biographer Vivian Noakes: "it was during the latter half of the 1850s...when [the artist] had given up hope of becoming a sought-after painter [in oils], that he produced his finest watercolours. He had achieved a masterly control of his medium, combining powerful composition with strong line and a fluid freedom in the handling of paint which would establish him as one of the great English watercolour painters."