Domenico De Marchis detto il Tempestino

Pair of landscapes oil on panel Diameter 17 cm This interesting pair of landscapes framed by thick arboreal backdrops with one shepherd leading his flock and the other with two wayfarers, fits perfectly in the vein of seventeenth-century Roman landscape painting. In them, in fact, one can discern an influence, albeit a generic one, of Salvator Rosa and Gaspard Dughet, for the taste of an idealized wild and picturesque nature, rendered, however, with a pictorial imprint that denounces a foreign Nordic matrix, in its rapid drafting of decisive brushstrokes, punctuated by constructive luministic touches. These peculiarities bring the works closer to the stylistic mark of Pietro Mulier known as the Tempest, who was active in Rome from 1656, however for the taste of the figurative "macchiette" more snappy and abbreviated, as well as that looser in the execution of the various landscape parameters, than that of the master, and the acquisition in a personal figure of the examples of the above-mentioned Rosa, Dughet and the Tempest, one can pertinently trace the author of our paintings in Domenico de Marchis called the Tempestino (active in Rome in the second half of the 17th century). Within gilt frame. The work is accompanied by a written report by Prof. Giancarlo Sestieri dated May 20, 2005.