Oil paint on canvas depicting View of the Tiber with an archaeological characters, Andrea Locatelli (Rome ...

Oil paint on canvas depicting View of the Tiber with an archaeological characters, Andrea Locatelli (Rome 1693-1741) Attributed. From private collection. Cm 56x110, Oil paint on canvas. "Painter of landscapes helped to represent the Roman countryside as an expression of an ideal of pastoral life, inspiration of a new culture that is different and spreads throughout the century XVIII in response to the Baroque, considered because of unrest and bad taste. In line with the principles developed in the academic Arcadia also pictorially restores a balance between nature and reason, intellect and imagination imaginative (Ut pictura poesis-Horace). the painting, fruit and expression of the times we live the painter, shows a very rare perspective cut of the Tiber, it depicts a locus amoenus, a nature which is an index of a peaceful and serene existence, out of time, aimed at a stable and peaceful and quiet. a still image of a idyllic moment fixed in its existential temporality . Pictorially the canvas assumes a balanced register, where the measured spaces are in perfect harmony with the landscape in green matter de nsa but precise. All this scenic plant definitely dughettiana memory comes from a common ductus and consonant with the artists of his time such as Paolo Anesi (Rome 1697.1773) or Paolo Monaldi (Rome 1710-1779). His work is the product of a culture with precise literary and philosophical references of the Arcadians circles of his time. " ASOR STUDIO