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Italian school; late seventeenth century. "Landscape." Oil on canvas. Relined. It has seventeenth-century frame with faults. Measurements: 65 x 89 cm; 75 x 99 cm (frame). Italy was the favorite place for northern European painters to paint outdoors, an incipient practice in the seventeenth century, for this reason there is some aesthetic correlation between the landscape schools, which over the decades began to establish their singularities and their own identity. In this case a golden light bathes the sky, which is filled by a large tree that brings darkness to the scene, giving shelter to a group of characters among which a white horse stands out, not for its anatomy but for its functionality as a point of illumination in the scene. This play of light turns the landscape represented into an evocative and idyllic setting, an image that was reworked in the sixteenth century, where the idea of the countryside was mythologized over the work and living conditions that the countryside offered to its inhabitants. In the Baroque period the landscape theme had not yet been institutionalized as a genre independent of religious or mythological themes. However, it is a defining period because important centers germinate in different parts of Europe, such as the Roman-Bolognese school or the Netherlands, where the landscape begins to acquire its own entity. In this canvas, the human figures (groups of shepherds) are subsumed to the great protagonist, which is the landscape: the atmospheric capture is particularly successful, with the treetops absorbing the lights of the sunset, the harmonious integration of the foliage with the architecture.

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Italian school; late seventeenth century. "Landscape." Oil on canvas. Relined. It has seventeenth-century frame with faults. Measurements: 65 x 89 cm; 75 x 99 cm (frame). Italy was the favorite place for northern European painters to paint outdoors, an incipient practice in the seventeenth century, for this reason there is some aesthetic correlation between the landscape schools, which over the decades began to establish their singularities and their own identity. In this case a golden light bathes the sky, which is filled by a large tree that brings darkness to the scene, giving shelter to a group of characters among which a white horse stands out, not for its anatomy but for its functionality as a point of illumination in the scene. This play of light turns the landscape represented into an evocative and idyllic setting, an image that was reworked in the sixteenth century, where the idea of the countryside was mythologized over the work and living conditions that the countryside offered to its inhabitants. In the Baroque period the landscape theme had not yet been institutionalized as a genre independent of religious or mythological themes. However, it is a defining period because important centers germinate in different parts of Europe, such as the Roman-Bolognese school or the Netherlands, where the landscape begins to acquire its own entity. In this canvas, the human figures (groups of shepherds) are subsumed to the great protagonist, which is the landscape: the atmospheric capture is particularly successful, with the treetops absorbing the lights of the sunset, the harmonious integration of the foliage with the architecture.

Estimate 3 000 - 3 500 EUR
Starting price 2 000 EUR

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