Andrea Locatelli (Roma, 1695 - Roma, 1741) Attributed by
Archaeological view of the Tiber with characters ...

Archaeological view of the Tiber with characters, XVIII century

Oil painting on canvas

56x110 cm

Landscape painter who helped to represent the Roman countryside as an expression of an ideal of pastoral life, inspiration for a new culture that differentiated and spread throughout the eighteenth century in response to the Baroque, considered the cause of unrest and bad taste. In harmony with the principles elaborated in the academic ambit of Arcadia, a pictorial balance is also restored between nature-reason, intellect and imaginative fantasy (ut pictura poesis-Quinto Orazio Flacco). The painting, fruit and expression of the times in which the painter lives, shows a very rare perspective cut of the Tiber, depicts a locus amoenus, a nature that is indicative of a peaceful and serene existence, out of time, aimed at a stable and tranquil stillness . A still image of an idyllic moment fixed in its existential temporality. Pictorially, the canvas assumes a balanced register, where the measured spaces are in perfect harmony with the green landscape in a dense but precise matter. All this scenic layout of Dughettian memory certainly derives from a common ductus and appropriate to 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 from the Arcadian circles of his time" ASORstudio