Italian school; XVIII century.

Italian school; XVIII century.
"Landscape."
Oil on canvas.
Measurements: 43 x 54 cm.
The classicist landscape was therefore one of the novelties that characterize the Italian painting of the XVII century, and already from the first decades of the century a change in the interpretation of the landscape is 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.