Storm at Sea | Narodna galerija

This is one of the most monumental of Pietro Tempesta’s seascapes. His exceptional skill in the depiction of both rough seas and stormy skies is shown here in a series of motifs, especially as regards luminescence. The sky is particularly effectively painted, opening in the middle between a number of very differently shaped clouds. This painting can be compared to similar examples in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj in Rome, in the Galleria Estense in Modena and in the Borromeo collection on Isola Bella on Lago Maggiore.

Artist Pieter Mulier

Technique oil, canvas

Dimensions 158 x 288 cm

Inventory number ZD S 2001088, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Collection 1600–1700

Restored: 1960, ZSV, Ljubljana.
Provenance: Unknown. FCC, 1945; on loan to the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts to be hung in their offices.
Exhibitions: 1960, Ljubljana, No. 103; 1983, Ljubljana, No. 17.
Lit.: Cevc 1960, p. 39, Cat. No. 103 (Dutch, 17C); Zeri [& Rozman] 1983, p. 112, Cat. No. 17, Fig. No. 18; Aloisi 1998, p. 85.