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Oil on canvas painting measuring 85 x 110 cm without frame and 103 x 126 cm with frame, depicting a landscape with figures along the path.
The work in question, depicting a wide rural passage, reveals the youthful poetics of Gaetano Vetturali (Lucca 1701 – 1783), the last epigone of the great Tuscan landscape tradition.
In this painting, we can note the Arcadian search for landscape with an atmospheric sensitivity that pervades the entire composition, in addition to the realistic verve of some passages where the pulsating luminous charge becomes mannered.
Vetturali established himself as one of the most interesting Tuscan personalities of the time, in that moment of transition from the late Baroque and Rococo culture to the Neoclassical one, precisely because of the shift he imprinted with a certain genius to the decorative taste of his time.
To further reinforce this thesis on the painter's skillful pictorial art, we are aided by the characteristics of the pictorial rendering in the use of a very luminous material, in the peremptory detachment between areas in light and those in shadow, in the execution of the lively figures that populate the theatrical scaffolding, and in the rendering of the landscapes that we find identical in his most important paintings.
The success of our painter is all enclosed in his ability to welcome the neoclassical poetics in an unconventional way, grafting it onto his early classical education and then reconnecting with those examples of Venetian painting that in the field of architectural capriccio had singularly anticipated aspects of neoclassical culture of the late 18th century, first with Battaglioli and then with Visentini.
The main characteristics of this canvas are the airy breadth of the panoramas and the sense of diffused luminosity that recall Pedon revisited with a neoclassical tone.
The episodes do not have a precise meaning, they are almost a rural pastime so dear to the artist with the usual characters from the repertoire of painters of caprices and views, that is, beggars, abbots contemplating ancient tombstones or peasants in search of rest or at work, all naturally always immersed in the dominating nature in undisputed and symbol of unity between man and life.
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Dr. Riccardo Moneghini
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