Pietro Colonna

LANDSCAPE - Italian School - Landescape - Oil on Canvas Painting

2007

Coast - Oil on canvas cm. 60x120 by Paolo De Robertis, Italy 2008. The painting is inspired by the canvases of the school of Posillipo by Consalvo Carelli designer, illustrator and...

Italian landscape - Mario Locatelli Italia 2011 - Oil on canvas cm.80x120. The painting by M. Locatelli portrays a glimpse of a luxuriant and bucolic landscape, probably Roman. The...

Landscape - Giovanni Faliero Italia 2005 - Oil on canvas cm. 80x60. Gold leaf gilded wooden frame cm. 100x80 Giovanni Faliero's oil painting is a tribute to the landscaping paintings...

Naples - Ettore Ferrante - Italia - Oil on canvas cm. 60x90. Ettore Ferrante is a refined and excellent view painter of the past. As a critic of art, it is a real pleasure to talk a...

This simply stunning large Old Master landscape oil painting is attributed to noted Dutch artist Adriaen van Diest. Painted circa 1700 this Mediterranean Italian landscape painting has everything; A really interesting landscape with land, river, sea and mountains, interesting figures and cattle and a wonderful sky with fading light. The details and the capturing of the light make this a really fantastic Dutch Old Master country house Grand Tour oil painting. Irresistible. Provenance. Dorset estate. Condition. Oil on canvas, 42 inches by 20 inches and in good condition. Frame. Housed in an English carved giltwood frame, 50 inches by 28 inches framed and in good condition. Adriaen van Diest (1655-1704) was born in the Hague in the Netherlands. Like his father and his brother, he pursued a career as a marine painter, that is, a painter of seascapes and sailing ships. In 1673, attracted by the thriving English market for portraits and marine paintings, he joined the exodus of Dutch artists leaving to work in England. It is thought that his master was Willem van de Velde the Younger...

Flemish painter active in Italy in the eighteenth century Coastal landscape of the Mediterranean with architectures and figures Oil painting on canvas (69 x 88 cm., in frame 80 x 100 cm.) The suggestive view proposed depicts a coastal view with a bay and the ruins of an ancient building, probably a monastery or a church, and in the background another building with a garden surrounded by high walls close to the shore. The type of landscape, typical of the southern Italian environment, and the intimate atmosphere that welcomes the scene, attributes the authorship of the work to a landscape painter active in the eighteenth century, presumably in Italy in this period, with immediate references to the Dutch school , and in particular to the production of Jacob de Heusch and above all of Gaspar van Wittel, considered the progenitor of Italian landscape painting. In fact, in the rendering of the architectural details, in the purity with which the buildings have been reconstructed, as well as in the atmosphere that encompasses the entire landscape, a marked correspondence to the so-called "Vanvitellian realism" can be seen: in fact, a comparison with a certain series of views which the Dutchman...

Achille Formis Befani 1832-1906, was an Italian painter. He was a talented singer who switched career in his early 30's to become a painter. He trained in Milan and travelled repeate...

Giuseppe Zais (Forno di Canale 1709 - Treviso 1784) - Landscape with Shepherds and Ruined Bridge. 79.5 x 108.5 cm (31.5 x 42.5 in) unframed, 96 x 125 cm (38.5 x 49.5 in) with frame....