LE PALLE DI SAN MARTINO PEINT PAR SILVIA DE BASTIANI

SILVIA DE BASTIANI (née en1981)
Palle di San Martino (3,192m)
Italie (Trentin-Haut Adige)

In Mostra a San Martino di Castrozza, Casa della Montagna, aquarelle sur papier https://www.silviadebastiani.it

L'artiste
Silvia De Bastiani est une artiste peintre italmienne née à Feltre en 1981. Elle commence à travailler de l’aquarelle en 1996, en suivant les cours d’été d'Ange Gorlini pendant 4 ans, puis,  à l’École Internationale Graphique de Venise. En 2004, elle reçoit son diplôme de peinture à l’académie des Beaux-Arts de Venise, puis une Maîtrise spécialisée en Arts visuels et disciplines du spectacle.
Entre 2007 et 2012, elle a occupé le poste d’assistante au Bureau d’Anatomie Artistique du Professeur Mauro Zocchetta à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Venise.Depuis 2008, elle donne des cours d’aquarelle et de dessin à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts G.B Cignaroli de Vérone. Ses créations sont souvent inspirées de la natureet peintes sur le motif. Elle les a présentées à de nombreuses reprises en Italie dans des expositions personnelles ou collectives, de la Vénétie à Milan, de Turin à Catane, en passant par Rome et Frosinone.

Les montagnes
La Cima di Vezzana (3,192m) est le point culminant des Pale di San Martino (également appelé groupe des Pale) forment le plus vaste groupe montagneux des Dolomites, avec une superficie d'environ 240 km2. Situées à cheval entre le Trentin et la Vénétie, elles s'élèvent entre les vallées de Primiero, du Biois et du Cordevole, dans le secteur central des Dolomites.
Le plateau des Pale s'étend sur environ 50 km2, formant un grand plateau rocheux, quasi lunaire, qui oscille entre 2 500 et 2 800 m d'altitude.
La partie du groupe située dans le Trentin est entièrement incluse dans le parc naturel de Paneveggio - Pale di San Martino. Selon certaines sources, le groupe a inspiré l'écrivain Dino Buzzati dans le cadre de son roman Le désert des Tartares.
Le système géologique des Pale est inclus dans le site Les Dolomites, déclaré en 2009 site du patrimoine mondial. par l'UNESCO
Le terme « Pala » dérive du nom qui a été utilisé localement pour désigner les berges et les pentes herbeuses situées à la base du groupe ; par extension, il a ensuite défini l'ensemble du groupe montagneux. Les premiers alpinistes, principalement britanniques, après avoir fait les premières randonnées et ouvert quelques itinéraires, désignaient originellement dans leurs mémoires le complexe montagneux avec les termes de Dolomiti di Primiero ou Gruppo delle Pale.
Ce n'est que plus tard, avec la propagation de la pratique du tourisme de montagne et la construction de routes carrossables qui ont favorisé la croissance de San Martino di Castrozza, qu'elles sont devenues connues dans le monde de l'alpinisme sous le nom des Pale di San Martino.  Il y a eu plusieurs affaissements de la roche au fil des ans. Les plus récents ont eu lieu en 2008, sur le pilier Castiglioni, et en décembre 2011, lorsqu'un bloc rocheux d'une taille d'environ 150 × 300 mètres s'est effondré de la face est du Sass Maor, effaçant partiellement 3 itinéraires alpins. 

 
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2023 - Gravir les montagnes en peinture
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EL JORULLO SKETCHED BY ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT

 

 ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT (1769-1859)
El Jorullo (1,329m- 4,360ft)
Mexico

 In Volcan de Jorullo,  Vue des Coridllères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique, 1816, Paris chez F. Schoell.

About this drawing
Alexander von Humboldt climbed El Jorullo during the Mexican portion of his scientific expedition to Spanish America. When he visited on 19 September 1803, its multiple cones were still smoldering and the air was extremely hot and filled with volcanic gases. He wrote a detailed description of the climb, noting that his face and those of his travel companions were burned. The volcano enriched the local soil and there was considerable vegetation. Humboldt sketched the volcano in the distance (see above), showing multiple smoking cones. Humboldt undertook the climb with his scientific travel partner Aimé Bonpland, as well as a local Basque settler Ramón Epelde, and two local indigenous servants, whose names have not been recorded. Humboldt noted their assistance on site. Humboldt also notes that he consulted a 1782 publication Rusticatio Mexicana, by Rafael Landívar, who calculated the height of the volcano and the temperature of the thermal waters.


The volcano
El Jorullo  (1,329m- 4,360ft) is a cinder cone volcano in Michoacán, central Mexico, on the southwest slope of the central plateau, 33 miles (53 kilometers) southeast of Uruapan in an area known as the Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field.  It is about 6 miles (10 km) east-northeast of La Huacana.  El Jorullo has four smaller cinder cones which have grown from its flanks.  El Jorullo's crater is about 1,300 by 1,640 feet (400 by 500 m) wide and 490 feet (150 m) deep.   El Jorullo is one of two known volcanoes to have developed in Mexico in recent history. The second, born about 183 years later, was named Parícutin after a nearby village that it eventually destroyed. Parícutin is about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of El Jorullo. El Jorullo was first erupted on 29 September 1759. Earthquakes occurred prior to this first day of eruption. Once the volcano started erupting, it continued for 15 years, eventually ending in 1774.
El Jorullo did not develop on a corn field like Parícutin did, but it did destroy what had been a rich agricultural area. It grew approximately 820 feet (250 meters) from the ground in the first six weeks. The eruptions from El Jorullo were primarily phreatic and phreatomagmatic. This 15 year eruption was the longest one El Jorullo has had, and was the longest cinder cone eruption known. Lava flows can still be seen to the north and west of the volcano.  Parícutin and El Jorullo both rose in an area known for its volcanoes. Called the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, the region stretches about 700 miles (1,120 km) from east to west across southern Mexico. The eruptive activity deposited a layer of volcanic rock some 6,000 feet thick, creating a high and fertile plateau. During summer months, the heights snag moisture-laden breezes from the Pacific Ocean; rich farmland, in turn, has made this belt the most populous region in Mexico. Though the region already boasted three of the country's four largest cities: Mexico City, Puebla, and Guadalajara (the area around Parícutin, some 200 miles west of the capital), it was still a peaceful backwater inhabited by Purépecha in the early 1940s. The crater and lake can now be reached by car.


The artist
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. Humboldt's advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring.
Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time from a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. Humboldt was one of the first people to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular). Humboldt resurrected the use of the word cosmos from the ancient Greek and assigned it to his multi-volume treatise, Kosmos, in which he sought to unify diverse branches of scientific knowledge and culture. This important work also motivated a holistic perception of the universe as one interacting entity.
On their way back to Europe from Mexico on their way to the United States, Humboldt and his fellow scientist Aimé Bonpland stopped in Cuba for a while. After their first stay in Cuba of three months they returned the mainland at Cartagena de Indias (now in Colombia), a major center of trade in northern South America. Ascending the swollen stream of the Magdalena River to Honda and arrived in Bogotá on July 6, 1801 where they met Spanish botanist José Celestino Mutis, the head of the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada, staying there until September 8, 1801. Mutis was generous with his time and gave Humboldt access to the huge pictorial record he had compiled since 1783. Humboldt had hopes of connecting with the French sailing expedition of Baudin, now finally underway, so Bonpland and Humboldt hurried to Ecuador. They crossed the frozen ridges of the Cordillera Real, they reached Quito on 6 January 1802, after a tedious and difficult journey.
Their stay in Ecuador was marked by the ascent of Pichincha and their climb of Chimborazo, where Humboldt and his party reached an altitude of 19,286 feet (5,878 m). This was a world record at the time, but a thousand feet short of the summit. Humboldt's journey concluded with an expedition to the sources of the Amazon en route for Lima, Peru.
At Callao, the main port for Peru, Humboldt observed the transit of Mercury. On 9 November and studied the fertilizing properties of guano, rich in nitrogen, the subsequent introduction of which into Europe was due mainly to his writings.

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2021 - Wandering Vertexes and Mountain paintings 
by Francis Rousseau