Italian school; 17th century.

Italian school; XVII century.
"Landscape."
Oil on canvas.
It has a frame of the nineteenth century.
Measurements: 37 x 48 cm; 63 x 72 cm (frame).
In this scene the author immortalizes a landscape of sober character in its composition captured with objective intention, but that nevertheless is shown to us in an evocative way, exalting values like the daily thing, the near thing and the known thing. 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.