Italian school; second half of the 17th century.

Italian school; second half of the seventeenth century.
"Landscapes".
Oil on canvas.
It presents faults in the pictorial surface.
They have old frames with faults.
Measurements: 44 x 66 cm (x2); 68 x 90 cm (frames, x2).
In these works the artist reflects the immensity of nature through the great mountains that, in the distance, extend towards the sky. The sky, of great emotional charge, continues the magnificent plastic exercise of the rest of the composition, masterfully worked with delicate touches of color. In both cases the human presence stands out with the representation of a figure in Arabian clothes, a bridge and different architectural structures. It is a sober landscape in its composition captured with objective intention, but nevertheless it is shown to us with the evocative character of the everyday, the close and the known. Formally, the careful chromatic and light study stands out, the result of which is an image solidly built on an agile reading rhythm.
The classicist landscape was therefore one of the novelties that characterized the Italian painting of the seventeenth century, and already from the first decades of the century a change in the interpretation of the landscape can be appreciated. This school will be characterized already in the Baroque period by the depiction of lyrical scenes that evoke the Arcadian vision of the pastoral environment, without the pretension of recreating specific landscapes. Nature is therefore ordered by the artist and subjected to classical rules, in the search for an ideal natural order of classical roots. Thus, we find balanced horizontal compositions, in line with Bolognese classicism, and at the same time punctual yet exact arrangements of nature that relate to the painting of Caravaggio and the Nordic painters settled in Rome, two influences that converge, with the former predominating.