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2. were only rarely the true subject of paintings until the Age of Enlightenment started to celebrate science
and technology ...
in the 19th century with the Impressionists, then during the modern and contemporary period,
becomes a privileged motif, a symbol of industrial development, a structured support of light and reflections ...

3. Bridges in Western painting

7. wild, inhospitable landscape.
high rocky mountains,
winding paths
and
a small bridge
... symbol of passing time; if there is a bridge,
there is a river, which is the banal symbol par excellence
of passing time
the theme of the painting is time ...
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa
La Joconde
1503-1506
Musée du Louvre, Paris

8. The mysterious iconography ...
the landscape and the sky rent by a bolt of lightning,
two human figures, absorbed in private reveries,
the little town half-hidden behind the luxuriant vegetation,
the lazy, tortuous course of the stream
and
the bridge
Giorgione
The Tempest
La Tempête
1508
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

11. one of the yearly processions of the True
Cross of the Scuola,
the Bridge of San Lorenzo full of people
who are looking at the event ...
(the relic fell in the water ... some people
have dived and a woman is pushing her
moorish slave to do the same: however,
Andrea Vendramin has already grabbed
the relic and is carrying it to the shore)
(... the typical inverted cone chimneys
of medieval Venice)
Giovanni Bellini
Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of S. Lorenzo
Miracle de la relique de la Croix au pont San
Lorenzo
1500
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

14. the bridge depicted is the one built in 1458 ...
(subject is the healing of a man possessed performed
by Francesco Querini, the Patriarch of Grado,
through the intercession of the relic of the Holy Cross
in his palace at the Rialto)
Vittore Carpaccio
Miracle of the Relic of the Cross at the Ponte di Rialto
Le Miracle de la relique de la Croix au pont du Rialto
1496
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

17. way past the figures ...
snow-capped mountains under a pinky-yellow sky,
grassy and wooded hills,
a broad meandering river with an island in its midst flows
through the heart of a city
and
a bridge
... the Christ Child’s fingers in the foreground seem
to connect to the bridge over the river in the distance
Jan van Eyck
The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin
La Vierge du chancelier Rolin
1435
Musée du Louvre, Paris

20. the bridge that symbolizes the passage from life to death ...
sin and damnation reflect the concerns of the Middle Ages,
the questioning of life, death, evil, good ...
Hieronymus Bosch
Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony, left panel
La Tentation de saint Antoine, panneau de gauche
1500
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon

23. a light magical ...
a sunbeam breaks through the clouds
and falls on the barely visible upper
surface of the stone bridge
Rembrandt
Landscape with a Stone Bridge
Paysage avec un pont de pierre
1638
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

25. largest City Barge taking the Lord Mayor
to the Palace of Westminster,
spectacular barges of the different city guilds
and
the new Westminster Bridge
(the bridge was not actually completed
until four years after this work was
painted)
Canaletto
Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor’s
Procession on the Thames
Le Pont de Westminster, avec la procession
du Lord-maire sur la Tamise
1747
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University,
New Haven

27. urban landscape ...
the ÎIe de la Cité, Equestrian statue of Henri IV,
banks of the Seine, boats,
the Samaritaine pump
and
the Pont-Neuf
Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Raguenet
La Pompe de la Samaritaine, le Pont-Neuf
et l'île de la Cité, le quai de Conti, vus du quai
du Louvre
The Pont Neuf and the Samaritaine
Avant 1771
Musée Carnavalet, Paris

30. the exaggerated scale and plunging
perspective of Westminster Bridge
intensify the drama of the scene,
which Turner observed from the south
bank of the Thames River …
The Burning of the Houses of Lords
and Commons
L'Incendie de la Chambre des lords
et des communes
1834-1835
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

32. an enclosed arch bridge made of white
limestone, which was built in 1600, connects
the New Prison to the interrogation rooms
in the Doge’s Palace
“Ponte dei sospiri” the name of the bridge,
deriving its title from the mournful image
of convicts taking their last glimpse of the city
before being led down to the darkness
of the cells ...
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Venice, the Bridge of Sighs
Venise, Le Pont des Soupirs
1840
Tate Britain, London

35. a charming stone bridge ...
the gnarled trees soar towards the sky
the bridge with slender arches, perfectly symmetrical
a clear and serene atmosphere …
Jean-Baptiste Corot
Le pont de Mantes
The Bridge at Mantes
1868
Musée du Louvre, Paris

38. in the spring of 1903, Pissarro temporarily moved
into a hotel on Quai Voltaire, on the left
bank of the Seine ...
from his room he could see the Pont Royal
and the Pavillon de Flore,
at the end of the Louvre buildings along the Seine,
at the south-west end
Camille Pissarro
Le Pont Royal et le Pavillon de Flore
The Pont Royal and the Pavillon de Flore
1903
Petit Palais, Paris

40. exotic hybrid water lilies and a humpback bridge
inspired by examples seen in Japanese prints …
here, the bridge spans the width of the canvas
but is cut off at the edges so that it seems
to float unanchored above the water …
Claude Monet
Le bassin aux nymphéas
The Water-Lily Pond
1899
National Gallery, London

42. Monet places his easel at the level of the train
tracks …
Saint-Lazare station,
the buildings on Rue de Rome
and
the Pont de l'Europe, a viaduct built in 1863
Claude Monet
Pont de l'Europe, gare Saint-Lazare
The Pont de l'Europe, Gare Saint-Lazare
1877
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

44. the Moret Bridge merge the clouds in the sky,
the reflections in the water below
Sisley's poetry ...
Alfred Sisley
Le pont de Moret
The Bridge at Moret
1893
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

46. a vibrant Pont Neuf ...
the equestrian statue of Henry IV,
sophisticated streetlamps,
horse-drawn carriages, soldiers,
women with varicolored parasols,
elegant gentlemen,
a gendarme in a dark-blue uniform
(and Renoir’s younger brother Edmond,
wearing a straw hat)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Le Pont Neuf
Pont Neuf, Paris
1872
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

50. a humble wooden pedestrian bridge
near Melun, surrounded by slender trees
in glowing emerald depths ...
Paul Cézanne
Pont de Maincy
The Bridge at Maincy
1879
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

52. two tall cypress trees, a white house,
a horse and buggy,
and
a woman holding an umbrella crosses
the Langlois Bridge …
Vincent van Gogh
Le Pont de l’Anglois à Arles et la femme
avec le parapluie
Langlois Bridge at Arles
May 1888
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud,
Cologne

54. a little yellow cart crosses the bridge while
a group of women in smocks and multicoloured
caps wash linen on the shore …
Vincent van Gogh
Pont de Langlois, Le Pont de Langlois à Arles
avec les femmes à laver
The Langlois Bridge at Arles,
Langlois bridge at Arles with women washing
March 1888
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

56. on a grey morning,
the stones, the pavements are grey;
the sky, pale blue, the figures, coloured;
and there is a sickly tree with yellow foliage ...
from the Quai de la Roquette, in October 1888,
Vincent Van-Gogh observed the metal bridge
which straddled the river and allowed people
and goods to travel between the two sides
of Arles,
also the comings-and-going, the passageway
and the staircase by which men and women
reached the walkway
Vincent van Gogh
Le pont de Trinquetaille construit en 1875
The Trinquetaille Bridge
October 1888
Private collection

58. a spring morning ...
a stray dog paws towards the Place de l'Europe
a man peering off the bridge toward the train station
a gentleman with high hat steps towards the observer,
is a flâneur, an upper-class street observer
this offspring of the Parisian bourgeoisie is followed by a woman
with a violet tint and dressed in a pathetic way, probably a prostitute
(alternatively, the man has been thought to be Caillebotte himself,
and the woman to be Caillebotte's companion, Anne-Marie Hagen)
Gustave Caillebotte
Le pont de l'Europe
Europe Bridge, Paris
1876
Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva

61. a cold, overcast day ...
the Saint-Lazare station from the Pont de l’Europe,
a monumental bridge that crossed over
the station’s railyards
one man in a bowler hat leans against the railing
of the bridge and gazes out at a moving train
a man in a top hat also stops to look
and
a third man hurries on, passing out of the frame
... the isolation and anonymity of the urban
environment
Gustave Caillebotte
Sur le pont de l'Europe
On the Pont de l'Europe
1876-1877
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

63. the arched bridge with little coloured dots
of pedestrians and carriages on a bright
summer day ...
the simplicity of the composition
Albert Marquet
Le Pont Saint-Michel
Saint Michel Bridge
1908
Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble

65. the port of L'Estaque, west of Marseille 1907
the non naturalistic colours of the Fauves
are combined with the reduction to simple
geometric forms of the landscape, in similar
style to Cézanne
Georges Braque
Viaduc à l'Estaque
The Viaduct at L'Estaque
1907
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

67. Bonnard and the lyricism of his
colors ...
Paris,
the life, the walks, the Parisians,
the passers-by on the bridge ...
the golden fire of an autumn twilight
Pierre Bonnard
Pont du Carrousel
The Pont du Carrousel
1903
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles

70. like a classic veduta ...
the view of the Île de la Cité from the right bank
of the Seine,
the Palais de Justice, Sainte-Chapelle,
Notre-Dame
Paul Signac
Le pont des Arts
1912
Museum Folkwang, Essen

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Bridges in Western painting
Pont dans la peinture occidentale
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