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Guardi, Procession of Gondolas
Artist: Francesco Guardi
Title: Procession of Gondolas in the Bacino di San Marco
Date: about 1790-1793
Medium: Oil on canvas
This piece depicts the environment of Venice, Italy during the 1700s. Judging by the different types of boats, the renewable resources that can be seen are wind energy and wave energy. The only intermediate-renewable source in the painting is fresh water, which is being used for transportation. Some fields of study that can be represented in this painting are history, geography, economics, engineering, and anthropology. The artist would most likely have an ecocentric view because the painting depicts how people in Venice coincide with the environment given to them by the geography of the city. The amount of human influence in this picture of Venice is pretty high. Considering there wasn’t a lot of technology to interfere with the environment back then, the people seem to have created an environment more suitable to their favor economically by removing anything natural that existed before. The energy that would be in the landscape would fall under the chemical energy diagram in Figure 2.14 of the textbook because the only energy being used is from the ocean which takes in heat and releases it. The ecosystem is impossible to tell due to human development, but the artist doesn’t seem to be showing the land as he is the ocean. This is the ecosystem that is being portrayed, and the part the artist wants to illustrate. The carbon cycle is an interesting cycle to develop in this representation of the landscape because since there is an absence of vegetation and animals, the only source of carbon would be from the ocean. Thus, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere would become much lower. The food cycle would be very small considering the amount of tampering to the ecosystem. The cycle would consist of soil bacteria from the ocean floor, to earthworms, to toads along the surface. Insects would also be around and taken in by toads and passing birds. The environment would be in a state of primary succession because all life that was there before has been built over. Human interference has caused a halt to any ecosystem being created anytime soon.
Guardi, Procession of Gondolas
Artist: Francesco Guardi
Title: Procession of Gondolas in the Bacino di San Marco
Date: about 1790-1793
Medium: Oil on canvas
This piece depicts the environment of Venice, Italy during the 1700s. Judging by the different types of boats, the renewable resources that can be seen are wind energy and wave energy. The only intermediate-renewable source in the painting is fresh water, which is being used for transportation. Some fields of study that can be represented in this painting are history, geography, economics, engineering, and anthropology. The artist would most likely have an ecocentric view because the painting depicts how people in Venice coincide with the environment given to them by the geography of the city. The amount of human influence in this picture of Venice is pretty high. Considering there wasn’t a lot of technology to interfere with the environment back then, the people seem to have created an environment more suitable to their favor economically by removing anything natural that existed before. The energy that would be in the landscape would fall under the chemical energy diagram in Figure 2.14 of the textbook because the only energy being used is from the ocean which takes in heat and releases it. The ecosystem is impossible to tell due to human development, but the artist doesn’t seem to be showing the land as he is the ocean. This is the ecosystem that is being portrayed, and the part the artist wants to illustrate. The carbon cycle is an interesting cycle to develop in this representation of the landscape because since there is an absence of vegetation and animals, the only source of carbon would be from the ocean. Thus, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere would become much lower. The food cycle would be very small considering the amount of tampering to the ecosystem. The cycle would consist of soil bacteria from the ocean floor, to earthworms, to toads along the surface. Insects would also be around and taken in by toads and passing birds. The environment would be in a state of primary succession because all life that was there before has been built over. Human interference has caused a halt to any ecosystem being created anytime soon.