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MARINA DI NAPOLI - Gouache anonymous artist, Italy 2000s

Gouache Nealopitane Marine, Italy, 2011, cm.22x33. Lacquered wooden frame. Delicious gouache made in 2011 by an unknown artist, using the method of the ancient masters of the landscape. Gouache paint is a non-permanent, water-based, opaque and opaque paint made opaque with the addition of a chalky white pigment. Invented in Europe in 500, it was initially used to carry out preliminary sketches of large oil works. It is characterized by a great ease of drafting and a lively color rendering, but it requires great skill, certainty in drawing and an extreme speed of execution, as it dries quickly and cannot be retouched. Precisely these characteristics give a particular liveliness and freshness to the works, characterized by light and opaque tones, very different from the glossy compactness of egg tempera and the transparency of the oil. Widely used in canvas paintings and miniatures. The technique was often used by landscape painters, such as Xavier Della Gatta, Pietro Fabris, Alessandro d'Anna...

Naples - Ettore Ferrante Italia 2005 - Oil on canvas cm. 30 x 80. In this wonderful canvas E. Ferrante depicts the beach of Posillipo. Ferrante was inspired by the masters of the Posillipo School, including Antonio Pitloo and Giacinto Gigante...

Oil on Canvas. The coastal foreshortening, near a rocky inlet where torrential waters flow, sees figures at the landing of ships, ready to welcome the approaching boats; in the dis...

A fine mid Century scene in gouache with graphic charcoal line work. The scene shows a sunny continental harbour scene in a pretty pastel palette. The artist has signed illegibly (po...