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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.
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
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
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.
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Capri is a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Naples situated on the island of Capri in Italy. It comprises the centre and east of the island, while the west belongs to Anacapri . Main sights
The Grotta di Matromania (or Mitromania or Matrimonio) is a large, natural cave on the east coast of the island of Capri, Italy. It is located near the Arco Naturale . The cave is approximately 27 m long, 18 m wide, and 18 m high.