Italian Greyhound

Posted in Dog Breeds on 03/05/2006 12:35 pm by admin

Italian Greyhound

Fortunately for us, members of royal families and nobles of Spain attaches great importance to the dogs, the dogs, especially toys. Many of the famous painters of the time he painted portraits of the family that included their dogs. Works by Velazquez, Murillo and Goya, including portraits of royal families and their dogs, toy dogs many of them "."

The walls of Prado in Madrid are covered by the portrait after portrait of dogs and their families or just beautifully painted dogs only. Any person very interested in dogs clearly enjoy the experience of surveying the walls of the Prado.

Many dogs have served as models for the sculpture of all kinds as well.

The Prado has one of the finest art collections in the world. The fine paintings are not Spanish, nor are the paintings of the Spanish scene or family. The walls of the Prado tell a story of European history in picture form. A typical example is a portrait by Jan Brueghel de Velours. The paint is inside the room of a collector, painted in 1617. The artist included a small toy dog in front of a monkey in the foreground painting.

The summary table is a small white shaggy dog that could be a bichon or a Maltese terrier sitting quietly under a table simply observing what is happening, but not taking part. HOW CUTE!

Artists have always been the registrar of his own time. The artists tell us something about dogs that are still with us, as well as those who appear to be lost to us today. In one of Titian paintings made before the de Velours, included a dog if the animal that exists today, it would look glamorous, long haired Italian greyhound. One has to wonder, however, this dog really did exist in that time or was only in the mind of the painter.

The Italian greyhound was the favorite at court in Spain and Italy for centuries and often appears in the paintings in the Prado. It has been observed that much of our surprise, in one case, the Italian Greyhound is painted with ears cut off. This was very unusual. Pugs look good with cropped ears, but the Italian Greyhound with cropped ears? Once again I have to wonder if maybe some of these models of famous dogs in these paintings are just the minds of the creators of painting and not the dogs that really existed in his time. On the other hand, might have been only an exceptional case and not the rule of the particular time. Personally I have not seen this picture, have only read about others and himself, but I must admit that the Italian greyhound every stranger would be shorter ears.

It has been said that one of the most attractive pictures of an Italian greyhound was one that appears in the picture 'The Earl of Northampton "by Pompeo Battoni in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. He was a great size for his period in the mid eighteenth century. At this time the Italian Greyhound was truly miniaturized. The portrait is said to be a beautiful copy, with all the elegance and grace of the breed.

This series: "Dogs in Art" continues in Part II.

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