2288418

LIGHTS AND COLOURS OF THE NEAPOLITAN LANDSCAPE.#2288418

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LIGHTS AND COLOURS OF THE NEAPOLITAN LANDSCAPE.#2288418
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DESCRIPTION: LIGHTS AND COLOURS OF THE NEAPOLITAN LANDSCAPE. SCHOOL OF POSILLIPO. G. GIGANTE?S INFLUENCES. A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see." Thus spake the English writer Samuel Johnson in the 18th century. This painting belongs to the Italian production known as "Posillipo School" of painting; paintings to take to every corner of the world where strong emotions are the dominant force, together with a genetic connection with telling through images. Paintings as explosive as lava, as spicy as the people of the capital of southern Italy, a country which has always been known as the cradle of art. Many artists found in Naples the perfect setting to express their painting , their landscapes painted from life using such "dabs of colour". This work is an expression of art of refined beauty, sensibility and poetry. Warm tonalities and the plein air technique, characterizing the real representation of the natural environment, creates an unequalled masterpiece of Neapolitan landscape. His palette becomes denser and lumpier; masses, defined by spots of colour, give place to a more and more sentimental vision of a nature often only evoked. All the element portrayed are elegant, graceful, and delicate and create a sense of drama in calm, measured tones, a mixture of colours and feelings typical of the Italian pictorial production where it is evident a vibrant approach to painting through ...
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<tr><td>Condition:GOOD</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1890</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:14.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Depth:1.2</td></tr>
<tr><td>Width:20</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:LIGHTS AND COLOURS OF THE NEAPOLITAN LANDSCAPE.</td></tr>


<tr><td>Type:oil on canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:ITALIA</td></tr>
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