18. John Fulleylove
(1845-1908)

The Church of Santa Fosca, Torcello, Venice

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Fulleylove, Church of Santa Fosca

The Church of Santa Fosca, Torcello, Venice

Original drawing in watercolor over pencil, ca. 1895, 195 x 280 mm. Finished watercolor on J. Whatman wove paper fully signed. Fulleylove was an English landscape painter and illustrator and member of the Royal Institute, but he had originally trained as an architect and that background led him to depictions of architectural monuments more than natural landscape. The Church of Santa Fosca on the island of Torcello outside Venice was constructed in the 11th-12th century and is connected by a portico to the Cathedral of Santa Maria. Its special interest, apart from its age, is that it is a circular church, one of a number of such in Italy, all, perhaps, inspired by the main body of the Pantheon. Many of Fulleylove’s watercolors were reproduced in travel books.