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Grand Tour 18th Century Veduta Capriccio Painting, After Gennaro Greco
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A fine, large 18th century veduta capriccio scene with temple ruins after Gennaro Greco from the circle of Pietro Cappelli. The painting is presented in a more modern carved gilt wood frame. The pair to this painting is also available on 1stdibs reference LU1430214555712.
Provenance: A Private English collection by descent.
This large eighteenth-century Italian oil on canvas painting is a fine example of architectural fantasy. It is a work of excellent quality. Although the decorations of ancient buildings and sculptures are imaginary, they are designed to charm rather than describe. The ruins are animated by colourful characters. The artist's ability to use perspective and the skillful rendering of building materials, such as the realistic marbles of the columns, make this painting a tour de force.
It is a magnificent large scale veduta capriccio scene with temple ruins, animals and figures socialising. Fantastic detail of statuary, idealised landscapes, costumes and of course the buildings themselves. Very much in the 'Grand Tour' style these fantastic works would have graced an important collection and will be a valuable and imposing addition to any interior or collection.
Gennaro Greco also known as "Il Mascacotta" (1663–1714) was an Italian architectural painter who was active in Naples during the late Baroque period. He is known for his architectural paintings, capricci, compositions with ruins, as well as his vedute. His vedute fall mostly in the category of the so-called vedute ideate which represent closely observed views of completely imaginary landscapes.
Pietro Capelli trained under Francesco Solimena and worked in his native Naples in the early 18th century. Mainly a painter of quadrature, he also painted landscapes. Capriccio scenes such as these, which combined architecture with landscape and genre figures, often required artists to collaborate according to their specialties, the figures and animals in this pair of scenes may have been completed by a different hand to the architectural ruins.
Pietro Capelli or Pietro Cappelli (born circa 1700, died 1724 or 1727[ was an Italian painter of the Rococo, active in his native city of Naples. He trained under Francesco Solimena. He was active in quadratura, but also painted capricci and canvases with landscapes.
He was a rival of Leonardo Coccorante. His father, Giuseppe Capelli, was a scenic designer at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. His brother, Giuseppe Cappelli (or Capelli) was a painter in Rome of scenographic decoration (theatrical decorations). Grossi states that he was so full of imagination, and fast at painting, that he did not even sketch beforehand for his works.
In painting, a capriccio is an architectural fantasy, placing together buildings, archaeological ruins and other architectural elements in fictional and often fantastical combinations. These paintings may also include staffage (figures). This style of painting was introduced in the Renaissance and continued into the Baroque.
By the late 18th century the term had expanded to mean any image with an equivalent degree of fantasy, for example as used in the titles of print series by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Goya, both of whom focus on figures rather than architecture.
- Dimensions:Height: 35.44 in (90 cm)Width: 45.67 in (116 cm)Depth: 3.55 in (9 cm)
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- Circle Of:Pietro Cappelli (1700 - 1724, Italian)
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- Condition:Extensive areas of old restoration. These paintings were restored and relined at the beginning of the 20th Century and it is from this time that the frames date.
- Gallery Location:Cotignac, FR
- Reference Number:Seller: LG/Cappellivache1stDibs: LU1430214555672
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