A Life Immersed in Light and Landscape Hermann David Salomon Corrodi, born in the picturesque Italian town of Frascati in July 1844—though some accounts suggest Zurich as his birthplace—was an artist destined to capture the allure of distant lands and the serene beauty of nature. His journey began within a family already steeped in artistic tradition; his father, Salomon Corrodi, was himself a respected painter who provided young Hermann with his earliest instruction at the Academy of St Luke in Rome. This foundational training instilled in him a mastery of academic technique, a skill he wou…
A chart of Hermann David Salomon Corrodi's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.