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Oil painting on canvas measuring 85 x 110 cm without frame and 103 x 126 cm with frame, depicting a landscape with figures and animals along Gaetano Vetturali's path.
The work in question, depicting a vast rural scene, unfolds the youthful poetics of Gaetano Vetturali (Lucca 1701 – 1783), the last epigone of the great Tuscan landscape tradition.
The landscape motif, even in its most imaginative flares, always has a real starting point for Vetturali, and therefore a genuine and human dimension; in this painting we can notice this green so bright and vivid that it tries to explain how the nature around us, in which we lose ourselves, is beautiful, strong, vigorous but at the same time sweet and docile.
It is wonderful to note how a tiny group of people is both busy with their tasks and at the same time seems lost in the serenity and tranquility of this landscape from another time.
Vetturali is a pictorial character from another era, very interesting and known for his complex personality and a truly eclectic taste in representation.
The canvas depicted here is a typical work of Vetturali, an artist from Lucca, who was inspired by the Venetian style especially in the development of the design, albeit with a less bright chromatic palette, but more calm and resolute in its passages, in its archaeological views with a more concrete and reality-based taste typical of Lucca's 18th-century painting.
The painting in question is very specific and clearly explains the painter's style thanks to an extravagant interpretation given to the landscape and buildings of Venetian origin, rendered with suggestive effects of scenographic enlargement happily lightened by genuine lyricism endowed with captivating freshness.
A cornerstone of our artist's painting is certainly the use of angular perspective, which gives greater monumentality to the buildings and brings impressiveness to the scene; another typical characteristic of the painter is this clear and bright air as well as the elongated figures caught in various lively aspects and portrayed with great descriptive attention.
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