{"id":"cma-124452","titulo":{"en":"Various Figures and Landscapes: Peasant Woman Carrying a Basket on her Head, 1649, Stefano Della Bella (Italian, 1610–1664). Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Carl Fredric Clarke. Etching.","es":"Various Figures and Landscapes: Peasant Woman Carrying a Basket on her Head, 1649, Stefano Della Bella (Italia, 1610-1664). Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Carl Fredric Clarke. Aguafuerte."},"titulo_original":"Various Figures and Landscapes: Peasant Woman Carrying a Basket on her Head","autor":"Stefano Della Bella (Italian, 1610–1664)","fecha":"1649","cultura":"Italy","tecnica":"etching","fuente":"Cleveland Museum of Art","licencia":"CC0-1.0","licencia_url":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","credito":"Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Carl Fredric Clarke","url_original":"https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.401.2","imagen_url":"https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.401.2/1945.401.2_web.jpg","ficha":{"en":{"titulo":"Various Figures and Landscapes: Peasant Woman Carrying a Basket on her Head, 1649, Stefano Della Bella (Italian, 1610–1664). Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Carl Fredric Clarke. Etching.","se_ve":"This is a horizontal etching in black ink on cream-colored paper, slightly rough in texture and shown with wide visible margins. The scene fills almost the entire format and is organized in bands: a very dark ground in the foreground, a pale path across the middle, and a broad sky rendered with sparse horizontal lines. Just right of center, a peasant woman strides in profile toward the right, dominant in scale. Her step is firm, one foot forward, her long dress brushing the ground. She wears a pleated skirt, full sleeves, and a scarf or shawl blown open by the wind across her shoulders. On her head, without using her hands, she balances a basket covered by a bundle of cloth; another small basket hangs at her waist, touched by her right hand, and she carries a bulging sack under her left arm. Her face is small and calm, looking ahead. To the left, among leafy trees drawn with dense strokes, tiny figures appear, one on horseback and another on foot. To the right are a river with horizontal reflections, a single-arched bridge, rocks, bushes, minute walkers, a distant hill, and low clouds. Two cursive inscriptions can be read along the bottom.","contexto":"According to the source data, this print belongs to *Various Figures and Landscapes* by Stefano Della Bella (Italy, 1610–1664), dated 1649 and held in the Prints department of the Cleveland Museum of Art, with the credit line Gift of Carl Fredric Clarke. It is an etching, a technique in which lines are incised into a metal plate with acid and then printed in ink on paper. Della Bella was a highly prolific Italian printmaker of the 17th century, known for landscapes, figures, and scenes of contemporary life. The source does not identify the exact place shown or the woman; she is probably a peasant type, observed or imagined, rather than a named portrait.","como_mirarla":"Start with the three loads she carries and notice that none of them seems to hold her back. Then compare her scale with the tiny figures among the trees and by the bridge: that difference turns an everyday walk into something almost monumental. Finally, follow the landscape from left to right, from dense shade to distant hill.","dato_curioso":"A surprising visual detail: she carries loads in three places at once —on her head, at her waist, and under one arm— yet the basket on her head stays balanced without either hand holding it.","preguntas":["What story can be imagined about where this woman is coming from and where she is going with so many loads?","How does the print change if we look at it as a portrait of work rather than as a landscape with a figure?","What does the contrast between her large figure and the tiny background travelers suggest about whose lives art chooses to enlarge?"]},"es":{"titulo":"Various Figures and Landscapes: Peasant Woman Carrying a Basket on her Head, 1649, Stefano Della Bella (Italia, 1610-1664). Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Carl Fredric Clarke. Aguafuerte.","se_ve":"Es un grabado horizontal en tinta negra sobre papel color crema, de textura ligeramente rugosa y con amplios márgenes visibles. La escena ocupa casi todo el formato y se organiza en franjas: un suelo muy oscuro en primer plano, un camino claro en el centro y un cielo amplio apenas rayado. A la derecha del centro avanza, de perfil hacia la derecha, una campesina de tamaño dominante. Su paso es firme, con un pie adelantado y el vestido largo rozando el suelo. Lleva falda plisada, mangas amplias y un pañuelo o chal que se abre con el viento sobre sus hombros. Sobre la cabeza sostiene, sin usar las manos, una canasta cubierta por un bulto de tela; en la cintura cuelga otra canasta pequeña que toca con la mano derecha y bajo el brazo izquierdo carga un saco abultado. Su rostro, pequeño y sereno, mira al frente. A la izquierda, entre árboles frondosos dibujados con trazos densos, aparecen figuras diminutas, una a caballo y otra a pie. A la derecha se ven un río con reflejos horizontales, un puente de un arco, rocas, arbustos, caminantes mínimos, una colina lejana y nubes bajas. Abajo se leen dos inscripciones en cursiva.","contexto":"Según los datos de la fuente, esta estampa forma parte de *Various Figures and Landscapes*, de Stefano Della Bella (Italia, 1610-1664), fechada en 1649 y conservada en el departamento de Prints del Cleveland Museum of Art, con crédito Gift of Carl Fredric Clarke. Es un aguafuerte, técnica en la que las líneas se muerden con ácido sobre una plancha metálica y luego se imprimen con tinta sobre papel. Della Bella fue un grabador italiano muy prolífico del siglo XVII, conocido por paisajes, figuras y escenas de la vida contemporánea. La fuente no precisa el lugar representado ni la identidad de la mujer; probablemente es un tipo campesino, observado o imaginado, más que un retrato con nombre.","como_mirarla":"Mira primero las tres cargas que lleva y nota que ninguna parece detenerla. Después compara su tamaño con las figuritas entre los árboles y junto al puente: esa diferencia vuelve monumental un camino cotidiano. Al final recorre el paisaje de izquierda a derecha, de la sombra densa a la colina lejana.","dato_curioso":"Un detalle visual sorprendente: lleva cargas en tres sitios a la vez —sobre la cabeza, en la cintura y bajo un brazo— y aun así la canasta superior se mantiene en equilibrio sin que ninguna mano la sostenga.","preguntas":["¿Qué historia puede imaginarse sobre de dónde viene y a dónde va esta mujer con tantas cargas?","¿Cómo cambia la estampa si se mira como un retrato del trabajo y no sólo como un paisaje con una figura?","¿Qué sugiere el contraste entre su figura grande y los viajeros diminutos del fondo sobre qué vidas decide agrandar el arte?"]}},"etiquetas":{"en":["peasant woman","etching","17th century","italy","landscape","basket","rural labor","walking","river","bridge","black and white","calm"],"es":["campesina","aguafuerte","siglo xvii","italia","paisaje","canasta","trabajo rural","caminar","río","puente","blanco y negro","serenidad"]},"objetos":["campesina","canasta sobre la cabeza","saco","canasta en la cintura","vestido largo","árboles","jinete","puente de un arco","río","colina"],"colores":["#E9E0CB","#2A251D","#6B6252","#B8AC92","#8F8672"],"animo":["camino tranquilo y laborioso","quiet, laboring journey"],"epoca":"siglo XVII","certeza":"alta","advertencias":[],"capa":{"voces":[{"guia":"la restauradora","en":"I focus on how this print was made. It is an etching printed in black ink on cream-colored paper with a slightly rough texture and wide margins. I look at the bands that organize the scene: the very dark ground in the foreground, the light path in the middle, and the barely hatched sky. I notice the density of the lines in the trees and the pleated skirt, and how the acid-bitten lines capture the wind in the shawl and the horizontal reflections on the river.","es":"Me detengo en cómo está hecha esta estampa. Es un aguafuerte impreso con tinta negra sobre papel color crema de textura ligeramente rugosa y con amplios márgenes. Miro las franjas que organizan la escena: el suelo muy oscuro en primer plano, el camino claro al centro y el cielo apenas rayado. Observo la densidad de los trazos en los árboles y el vestido plisado, y cómo las líneas mordidas con ácido logran el viento en el chal y los reflejos horizontales del río."},{"guia":"el astrónomo aficionado","en":"Even though it is daytime, I am drawn to that wide and almost empty sky, barely hatched, with low clouds over the distant hill. It contrasts with the dark ground in the foreground and makes the peasant woman, large and in profile to the right, seem to walk under an immense vault. I like to imagine the even light that casts no harsh shadows and still lets us see in the distance the single-arch bridge, the river, the bushes and those tiny walkers who look like dots in the landscape.","es":"Aunque sea de día, me atrae ese cielo amplio y casi vacío, apenas rayado, con nubes bajas sobre la colina lejana. Contrasta con el suelo oscuro del primer plano y hace que la campesina, grande y de perfil hacia la derecha, parezca avanzar bajo una bóveda inmensa. Me gusta imaginar la luz pareja que no proyecta sombras duras y deja ver a lo lejos el puente de un arco, el río, los arbustos y esos caminantes mínimos que son como puntos en el paisaje."},{"guia":"la niña de ocho años","en":"I love this lady because she looks like a circus performer! She walks very upright and carries a basket on her head without holding it with her hands, with a cloth bundle on top. She also carries a big sack under her arm and another little basket at her waist that she touches with her hand. Her long dress brushes the ground and her scarf flies in the wind. Behind her, among the trees, there are tiny people on horseback who look like toys.","es":"¡Me encanta esta señora porque parece de circo! Camina muy derecha y lleva una canasta sobre la cabeza sin agarrarla con las manos, con un bulto de tela encima. Además carga un saco grande bajo el brazo y otra canastita en la cintura que toca con la mano. Su vestido largo le roza el suelo y su pañuelo vuela con el viento. Atrás, entre los árboles, hay gente chiquitita a caballo que parece de juguete."}],"retos":[{"pregunta":{"en":"If you look at the woman walking in profile to the right, what is she balancing on her head without using her hands?","es":"Si miras a la mujer que avanza de perfil hacia la derecha, ¿qué sostiene sobre su cabeza sin usar las manos?"},"pista":{"en":"It is a woven object covered with a cloth bundle that she balances as she walks.","es":"Es un objeto tejido que lleva cubierto con un bulto de tela y lo equilibra mientras camina."}},{"pregunta":{"en":"In the image everything seems printed in a single ink color on cream paper, what color is that ink?","es":"En la imagen todo parece impreso en un solo color de tinta sobre papel crema, ¿de qué color es esa tinta?"},"pista":{"en":"It is the dark color of the foreground ground and of all the etched lines.","es":"Es el color oscuro del suelo en primer plano y de todas las líneas del grabado."}},{"pregunta":{"en":"Look toward the background on the right, over the river, what single-arch structure crosses the water?","es":"Mira hacia el fondo a la derecha, sobre el río, ¿qué construcción de un solo arco cruza el agua?"},"pista":{"en":"It is near rocks and bushes and very tiny walkers cross it.","es":"Está cerca de rocas y arbustos y lo cruzan caminantes muy pequeños."}}],"conexiones":["trabajo rural y oficios","el cuerpo que carga y equilibra","aguafuerte y línea grabada","paisaje en franjas: suelo, camino y cielo","río y puente como lugar de paso","figuras diminutas frente a figura dominante","blanco y negro sobre papel crema"]},"salas":[],"escrita_por":"muse-wonder-1.0"}