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Painting by Jakob Alt, 1835–36. The Blue Grotto (Italian: Grotta Azzurra) is a sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri, southern Italy.Sunlight shining through an underwater cavity is reflected back upward through the seawater below the cavern, giving the water a blue glow that illuminates the cavern.
The Blue Grotto at Capri, an 1835 painting now in the Kunsthalle Bremen Heinrich Jakob Fried (11 March 1802, Queichheim - 2 November 1870, Munich ) was a German painter. Life and work
Blue Grotto may refer to: Blue Grotto (Biševo), a cave on the Croatian island of Biševo; Blue Grotto (Capri), a cave on the Italian island of Capri; Blue Grotto (Malta), a cave in Malta; Blue Grotto (Brooklyn Bridge), a storage space
English: The Düsseldorf-trained artist visited Naples and Capri in the summer of 1857. This drawing bears an inscription on the reverse: "Mr. Walters with the compliments of the author." The Blue Grotto on the north side of the island of Capri had become renowned as an attraction for tourists during the 19th century.
Swimming inside, he not only noticed the deeply saturated blue color of the water, but also found remains that suggested the grotto had been used by Romans in the past. [ 2 ] After he had returned from the grotto, Kopisch made the first two sketches of it that started a wave of artistic and later photographic depictions of the Blue Grotto. [ 2 ]
The book that spawned the 19th century fascination with Capri in France, Germany, and England was Entdeckung der blauen Grotte auf der Insel Capri (Discovery of the Blue Grotto on the Isle of Capri) by German painter and writer August Kopisch, in which he describes his 1826 stay on Capri and his (re)discovery of the Blue Grotto.
Via Krupp is a historic hairpin turn paved footpath on the island of Capri, connecting the Charterhouse of San Giacomo and the Gardens of Augustus area with Marina Piccola. Commissioned by the German industrialist Friedrich Alfred Krupp , the path covers an elevation difference of about 100 m (330 ft).
The Grotta del Castiglione is a lofty cave on the island of Capri, Italy.It is located high up in the hill of the same name, facing south. When the inhabitants of Capri took refuge in it at the time of the Turkish raids, there was a way to it from the east, but the path has since been destroyed by the crumbling of the cliff.