Nancie King Mertz - Italy Series, Originals

Italy
Named "Artist of the Year" by the
Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau for 2005-2007

"Tuscan Trek" - Week One - Italy 2005
June of 2005 offered a great opportunity to focus on plein air (on-site) painting in Italy. Week one, we stayed with Chicago friends in a wonderful villa overlooking Volterra in Tuscany. "La Paiola" is owned by a New York artist who lives on the property and offered us an unforgettable glimpse of Tuscan life. His home provided the inspiration for many of these new works.
Enjoy this tour of central Italy and check often as pieces are added to the page in preparation for the show opening on November 4. Please contact us with any questions.

Beyond Orvieto
Orvieto, Italy
Oil, 24.00x20.00
SOLD - Prints Available

This is a sampling of the paintings done on-site (plein air) in central Italy--we're adding more to the page each day as I finish the studio paintings from sketches and reference photos. Please check this page often! Originals are grouped with new of central Italy (2005) at the top, and older ones of Capri & northern Italy (2000) below. All the originals of Italy are all museum framed in my studio, Artful Framer Studios, using incredibly beautiful Roma Mouldings, designed and hand-finished in Italy. Most of the 75 originals of Italy 2000 have sold. Sold images are available, however, as Fine Art Cards & Giclée prints on our print site: ArtDeTriumph.		Sister Act: Breaking Bread Florence, Italy Pastel 17.00x14.00 SOLD - Prints Available

Field Of Dreams Volterra, Italy Pastel 31.00x22.50 SOLD - Prints Available		Casa Delle Rose Tuscany, Italy Oil 18.00x18.00 SOLD - Prints Available
Al Fresco In Florence Florence, Italy Oil 18.00x18.00 SOLD - Prints Available		Twilight Travelers Pisa, Italy Oil 08.00x16.00 SOLD - Prints Available
Street In San Gimignano San Gimignano, Italy Oil 11.00x17.00 SOLD - Prints Available		Italian Vitner Banfi, Italy Oil 18.00x14.00 $1,500 Museum Framed
La Paiola Pond Volterra, Italy Plein Air Oil 18.00x14.00 SOLD - Prints Available		Path To Volterra Volterra, Italy Oil 20.00x24.00 SOLD - Prints Available
A Day In Bagno-Reggio Bagno-Reggio, Italy Pastel 21.00x24.00 SOLD - Prints Available		Lunch In San Gimignano San Gimignano, Italy Plein Air Watercolor 10.25x11.00 SOLD
Poppy Field 1 Volterra, Italy Pastel 5.00x5.00 SOLD - Prints Available		Poppy Field 2 Volterra, Italy Pastel 5.00x5.00 SOLD - Prints Available
Hilltop Gardner Banfi, Italy Pastel 17.00x09.00 SOLD - Prints Available		(detail) Tuscan Lineup Volterra, Italy Pastel 16.50x04.50 SOLD - Prints Available
La Paiola Welcome Volterra, Italy Plein Air Oil 14.00x18.00 SOLD - Prints Available	Morning at La Paiola Volterra, Italy Plein Air Oil 14.00x17.75 $1,580 Museum Framed
Volterra Valley Volterra, Italy Plein Air Oil 14.00x18.00 $1,500 Museum Framed		Volterra Valley Still Volterra, Italy Plein Air Oil 11.00x14.00 SOLD - Prints Available
View Of San Gimignano San Gimignano, Italy Pastel 17.25x06.25 SOLD - Prints Available		Line up Venice, Italy Oil 08.75x10.50 $1000

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"Tuscan Trek" - Week Two - Italy 2005
We moved south through Umbria and into the countryside of Lazio, north of Rome. Intensive painting sessions occurred each morning & afternoon, resulting in 2-4 paintings per day! The Roman Campagna (Roman countryside) is historically significant in that 17th Century plein air painting has it's roots in the very area we stayed. Claude Lorraine (1600-82) and Corot (1796-1875) painted many of the vistas around Civita Castellana, our home for the week. All of the fascinating forays into privately owned farmland were provided by Maddine & Joe of Etruscan Places: www.landscapepainting.com I hope you'll enjoy this tour of central Italy and check often as pieces are added to the page through November, in preparation for the show opening on November 4. Please contact us with any questions.

Gates Of Rome Rome, Italy Pastel, 15.500x07.000 SOLD Prints Available		Italian Rolls Roman Countryside, Italy Pastel, 40.000x30.000 SOLD Prints Available
The Constant Gardner Faleri Novi, Italy Oil, 14.000x11.000 $1,225 Museum Framed		The Stone Sink Civita Castellana, Italy Oil, 30.000x24.000 SOLD Prints Available
Letting His Guard Down Rome, Italy Pastel, 7.500x21.500 $1,400 Museum Framed		La Generazioni Civita Castellana, Italy Oil, 30.000x40.000 $3,500 Museum Framed.
Field Sketches Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 12.000x08.000 $800 Museum Framed.		Roman Dome Rome, Italy Pastel, 9.000x14000 $1,040 Museum Framed
Flower Market, Rome Rome, Italy Oil, 12.000x16.000 $1,400 Museum Framed		Vatican Museum Rome, Italy Oil, 06.000x14.000 SOLD Prints Available
Pizza Dei Foglia Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 12.000x09.500 $990 Museum Framed,		Faleri Novi Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 18.000x14.000 $1,400 Museum Framed
Along The Tracks Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 6.250x4.000 Museum Framed, SOLD		Terrano Terrain Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 6.250x4.250 Museum Framed, SOLD
Civita Castellana I Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 4.625x6.750 Museum Framed, SOLD		Civita Castellana II Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 4.625x6.750, Museum Framed, SOLD Prints Available	Civita Castellana III Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 4.250x6.250, Museum Framed, $550
Sheepish Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 6.250x4.000 Museum Framed, $525		Poggio Dei Cappucini Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 20.000x12.000 SOLD Prints Available
After The Storm Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 6.000x4.500 SOLD Prints Available		Fort At Civita Castellana Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 6.500x4.600 Museum Framed, $575
Made In The Shade Plein Air Oil, 12.000x08.000 Museum Framed, $800		Mount Soracte Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 18.000x14.000 $1,500 Museum Framed,
Path To Faleri Novi Civita Castellana Plein Air Oil, 12.000x19.750 $1,500 Museum Framed,	Fresh Cut Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 18.000x14.000 Museum Framed, $1,280		Tiber Valley Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Oil, 14.000x18.000 Museum Framed, $1,280
Giuseppina's Farm Civita Castellana, Italy Oil, 16.000x08.500 SOLD		View From Casa Ciotti Civita Castellana, Italy Plein Air Pencil, 14.500x10.000 Museum Framed, SOLD
Italy 2000
Weary Traveler-Venice Pastel, 9x14 museum framed $1000	Grand Canal-Venice Pastel, 28.5x22.5 museum framed $2,400		Venice, View From The Top Watercolor, 10x14, museum framed $900
Clock Tower-Rapallo Plein Air Watercolor, 4x6, museum framed $450	Cerulean Sea-Capri Plein Air Oil, 18x14, museum framed, $1,200	The Old Girls-Rapallo antique dolls at a market stall Oil, 10x8, museum framed $700	Cliffs Of Anacapri-Capri Plein Air Oil, 11.5x7, SOLD prints available
ITALY IN PRINT-- below, as well as any "sold" piece above
First Light-Venice Oil, 26x28, framed SOLD prints available	San Marco II-Venice Oil, 5x9, framed SOLD prints available	Setting Out-Venice Oil, 24x20, framed SOLD prints available	Sunday Paper-Venice Pastel, 24X20, framed SOLD prints available
Antipasto-Venice Pastel, 10x15, framed SOLD prints available	Colors of Camogli-Camogli Pastel, 18x24, framed SOLD prints available	Rose Garden Oil Capri SOLD prints available	Ochre Reflections Oil Venice SOLD prints available
Moving Toward the Light Oil Rapallo SOLD prints available	Tuscan Trek Oil Tuscany SOLD prints available	Meandering Pastel Venice SOLD prints available	Venetian Red Pastel Venice SOLD prints available
Gracing Ishcia Watercolor Capri SOLD prints available	Cinque Terra Hikers Pastel, Cinque Terra SOLD prints available	A Day in Portofino Oil Portofino SOLD prints available	Drifters Oil Venice SOLD prints available
Under the Rialto Oil Venice SOLD prints available	Tan AM Milan Oil Milan SOLD prints available	Our Restaurant Pastel, Capri SOLD prints available	San Polo Pastel, Venice SOLD prints available
The Young Gardner Oil Capri SOLD prints available	Italian Composition Watercolor Rapallo SOLD prints available

Please contact me if you wish to purchase an original or need further information.
All paintings are priced to include museum framing from my studio.
Fine art prints of the images are produced only after the original is sold.

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