Keyword: Amalfi

Mendelssohn, the painter Mendelssohn Amalfi Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Landscape of the Amalfi Coast, watercolour on paper One of Mendelssohn’s most attractive landscapes, based on a pencil sketch now in the Bodleian Library, dated Amalfi, 31 May 1831. The watercolour differs in many details from the pencil sketch, the latter being transformed from a visual record to a work of art. The Capuchin monastery (centre of the picture), which had been an inn since 1821, is where the compos…