60 - Nicola Viso (active in Naples before the mid-18th century), attributed

Nicola Viso (active in Naples before the mid-18th century), attributed Landscape with Ruins and a Fortress Oil on canvas 55 x 73.5 cm A landscape painter, Nicola Viso is noted by De Dominicis for his comparison with Michele Pagano. In his *Landscape with Ruins*, dated 1724, he demonstrates a deep connection to the style of Salvator Rosa, with a dynamic sense of the natural world and hints of Coccorante’s art. The artist combined landscape themes with views featuring ruins, as well as seascapes modeled after the Dutch. Along with Michele Pagano, Gaetano Martoriello, and Francesco Graziani, Leonardo Coccorante, and Francesco Graziani, Gennaro Greco was part of a small group of landscape painters—in the broadest sense of the term, given that the latter two were ruin painters—who, in Naples, sought to express this new and deeply felt vision of nature, though they were not well understood. In the work under consideration, the Roman influence is evident, highlighting his familiarity with Gaspard Dughet, Jan Frans van Bloemen, and Jacob de Heusch. Viso possesses an entirely original pictorial language; his brushstrokes are as brief as they are vibrant in their vivid play of colors. Nicola Viso (active in Naples before the mid-18th century) attributed Landscape with Ruins and Fortress Oil on canvas 55 × 73.5 cm