Giuseppe Zais (Forno di Canale 1709 - Treviso 1774)
Small oil painting on canvas depicting a battle scene.
Dimensions: 30x20 cm
The painting is accompanied by an expert appraisal from Professor Giancarlo Sestieri, the foremost expert and author of books on Italian battles.
He began in the circle of Marco Ricci, where he learned the vigorous chiaroscuro contrasts that characterized his early works. He then replaced landscapes with ruins with idyllic and pastoral landscapes, with manners similar to Francesco Zuccarelli, his teacher in Venice. Compared to Zuccarelli, however, he is more rustic and genuine without any trace of affectation; the nature he represents always remains in an Arcadian context. Landscape, in fact, is the genre in which he best expresses his pictorial and coloristic abilities, demonstrating great skill in landscapes from a very light and delicate chromatic range to a more consistent and robust one. He was also a talented "battle painter". Several of his works are preserved at the Correr Museum in Venice.
