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Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (July 1844 – 30 January 1905) was an Italian painter of landscapes and orientalist scenes.Mavi Boncuk: "Hermann Corrodi
The Galata Bridge and the Yeni Valide Djami
Accessed 23 June 2011.
Juler, Caroline, ''Les orientalistes de l'école italienne'', ACR édition, 1992.Lynne, Thorton, ''Les Orientalistes, peintres voyageurs, 1828-1908'', ACR, paris 1983.


Biography

Corrodi was born in Frascati (an alternate source lists his birthplace as Zurich) and lived for many years in Rome." Corrodi studied at the Academy of St Luke under his father,
Salomon Corrodi Salomon Corrodi (23 April 1810 – July 4, 1892) was a Swiss-Italian painter, mainly of watercolor landscapes. Biography He was born in Fehraltorf, the son of an Italian Protestant preacher living in Switzerland. Two of his sons, Hermann and ...
(1810–1892) and in Paris (1872). Corrodi received commissions for history paintings from the British royal family. He was acquainted with most of the European royalty of the time, including a friendship with Queen Victoria, and traveled widely in the Far East, including Egypt, Syria, Cyprus and Istanbul, which provided the subject matter for many of his paintings. He is the brother of Arnold Corrodi. Originally a landscape painter in the academic style, much of his work is also typical of the
Orientalism In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. In particular, Orientalist p ...
style of the 19th century.Mavi Boncuk:
Orientalism: Another Corrodi
, accessed from MaviBoncuk.blogspot.com 23 June 2011.
In 1893 he was knighted as an ''Academic of Merit'' by the Academy of St Luke, where he had been a professor. He died in Rome on 30 January 1905. Corrodi's work is in the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York,
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Works

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Prayer at Dusk, Venice
' *''Campfire by the River: The Kiosk of Trajan at Philae'' *''Fetching Water at a Fountain'' *''Italian Fishermen By The Sea, Southern Italy'' *''Fisherman at Rest on a Vessel in Quiet Waters'' *''Processione A Sorrento'' *''The Ambush'' *''Arab Carpet Merchants'' *''Sunset on the Nile'' *''At the Water's Edge'' *''Prayers at Dawn'' *″Ein Fischer und Meerjungfrauen in der Blauen Grotte auf Capri″


See also

* List of Orientalist artists *
Orientalism In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. In particular, Orientalist p ...


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Corrodi, Hermann David Salomon 1884 births 1905 deaths People from Frascati 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Orientalist painters 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists