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Reflections on the Collection: The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Anna Ottani Cavina on John Robert Cozens, Cetara on the Gulf of Salerno (1790)

Anna Ottani Cavina (Università di Bologna, emerita; Fondazione Federico Zeri, presidente onorario; and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) focuses on John Robert Cozens, Cetara on the Gulf of Salerno (1790). Ottani Cavina describes Cozens’s visionary approach to watercolor painting, which inspired the romantic painters of the next generation. 

11/28/17