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What to do with Mediocre Painting? The (Ab)uses of Vincenzo Chilone's The Return of the Horses to San Marco
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The Venetian painter Vincenzo Chilone (1758-1839) is at best a footnote in conventional art history. Many of his works are in private hands, as museums do not strive to have a "Chilone." Chilone's most well-known work is "The Return of the Horses to San Marco" (1815), which, because of its historical subject matter, has appeared in books about Venice. Typically, though, Chilone is not mentioned, and the text may not even explicitly refer to the painting, which "speaks for itself." A close examination of this painting, which no one seems to have done, reveals more than meets the eye at a casual glance. "The Return of the Horses to San Marco" - ostensibly a celebration of Austrian triumphalism after the Napoleonic wars - can be read subversively as anti-Austrian.
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Art History, Venice, Vincenzo Chilone, Horses of San Marco.
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