River landscape with ancient tower and popular festival

This evocative, luminous landscape vision, animated by a delightful rural festival, is the work of Gaetano Zais (active in Venice in the second half of the 18th century). In this beautiful landscape, the particular colorism, rich in warm tones typical of the palette of his father Giuseppe Zais, while the motifs of the pre-alpine landscape and the leafy arboreal backdrops recall the compositional taste of Marco Ricci, the great master who, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, pioneered the renewal of the landscape genre. Oil on canvas, 52.5 x 69 cm - Expertise: Prof. Dario Succi