andrea locatelli (1695-1741) workshop- roman countryside

Italian School of the early eighteenth century

Andrea Locatelli Workshop (1695-1741) Landscape classic animated characters (110cm by 85cm) Table can form a pair with another painting for sale This classic landscape of the Roman countryside shows an exuberant nature with two people and a dog near a river. "An enchanted living invent in Rome in the seventeenth century, the classical landscape as a genre in itself, with views of a scale and a new nobility, far from a reduced to a simple nature backdrop for religious or mythological scenes. If figures of saints or nymphs continue to haunt the rocks and grasslands, they no longer occupy most of the space. Some are even so well hidden in the landscape as the subject of the painting has become enigmatic. Nature has taken over history. "Andrea Locatelli Italian painter (Rome 1695 - id. 1741). Landscape, he first worked in the tradition of Bolognese and Roman Classicism, in the footsteps of Poussin and Gaspard Dughet. Then influenced by Salvator Rosa and F. Van Bloemen, he adopted a freer way and was, next to Panini, among the first representatives of this painting "outdoors", oscillating between ideal and reality, whose role was essential in the formation of some "vedutisti" Roman and landscape as J. Vernet R. Wilson. He always distinguished by clarity, atmospheric truth and elegance of his compositions, he did not abandon, even when treated rustic subjects (Harvest Festival, Rome, Galleria Pallavicini). His paintings (marine, fantasy landscapes with ruins, dancing peasants, views of Rome and the Roman countryside) are kept in museums in Boston (MFA), Budapest, Montpellier, Munich, Périgueux, Vienna (Akademie), Rome (Rome, GN, Gal. Corsini, Academy of St. Luke, Gal. Pallavicini), Wiesbaden, Stockholm (Nm) and the Hermitage. Oil on canvas, very good condition

Antiques.co.uk Ref: 77RK24WV

Materials:

oil on canvas

Width (cm):

116

Height (cm):

92

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