Wright was deeply attracted by the Italian landscape. In a letter to his sister Nancy, from Rome, dated 22 May 1774, he wrote: “The natural scenes are beautiful and uncommon, with an atmosphere so pure and clear, that objects twenty miles distant seem not half the way.”
Some ten years later, after his return to England, Wright created one of his great landscapes, A View of Tivoli. Tivoli is outside Rome and the painting shows a breathtaking view of the Italian countryside illuminated by the sun. The sunlight plays across an expanse of scenery, lighting hills and mountains in the distance, and the river, rocks and foliage in the foreground. Wright paints Tivoli as an insignificant silhouette within a landscape which celebrates awesome natural beauty.
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