Description

This war scene of evident Venetian taste shows pictorial suggestions à la Marco Ricci and Rosian memories. The pictorial technique, all of touch and impasto, shows almost instinctively fast brushstrokes, typical of Antonio Maria Marini, especially by capturing the evolution in a fully eighteenth-century and romantic key of the landscape and the scrub figures. This perception can be grasped by carefully observing the scenic construction, conceived with rococo sensibility by combining the noble strands of Venetian landscape and Capriccio in a discreet but very successful way. As for the suggestions taken from Salvator Rosa, it is assumed that the artist learned them during his stay in Florence at the Medici court, while the atmospheric sensibility appears to be more than ever indebted to the creations of Pieter Mulier known as il Tempesta. The result is an interpretation of the landscape of extraordinary chromatic happiness.