"Serenade"
Work by Marco Marcola (Verona, 1740 - 1793)
With a cursive brushstroke, modulated by skillful chromatic variations aimed at balancing luminous illuminations and velvety shadows, he creates a lively representation of scenes of contemporary life in this delightful pair of paintings by Marco Marcola (Verona, 1740 – 1793), a Veronese painter whose innovative aspect compared to the Veronese tradition lies in the choice of a repertoire linked to the spectacle of everyday life, captured with captivating and playful narrative vivacity.
Son of Giambattista, a painter active between Verona and Modena, he was the most authoritative member of a large family of artists. Trained in his father's workshop together with his brothers Nicola, Francesco, and Angela, he acquired a position of greater importance by virtue of his being “very expeditious in his work, fertile in his inventions.”
The fluency of the brushstroke and the ironic wit of the artist are the salient characteristics of the beautiful pair of paintings examined here, where the revival of moments of popular and noble leisure constitutes a sort of “recreation” of the imagination, delineating, together with carnival scenes and theater scenes, the most successful strand of Marco's activity.
Expertise: Prof. Dario Succi
Dimensions: oil on canvas, cm 56 x 76.5
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