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PIETRO PALTRONIERI known as the MIRANDOLESE (attr. to)
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Lot no. 32
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PIETRO PALTRONIERI known as the MIRANDOLESE (attr. to)
(Mirandola, 1673 - Bologna, 1741)
Pair of architectural capriccios with figures
Oil on canvas, 132X68 cm (2)
In Bologna during the 18th century, a taste for perspective landscape painting with ruins became widespread. The continuators of the renowned school of quadraturisti of the previous century perpetuated the pride of the Emilian school of painting, renewing its course and adapting to the elegant and imaginative rocaille fashion. These artists created sequences of canvases in which different themes of caprice manipulated architectural styles, classical themes with rural and coastal visions, expressing a very particular decorative sensibility of theatrical inspiration. It was also common practice for figure painters and set designers to work together. Prominent among these was the personality of Pietro Paltronieri known as Mirandolese who, following the dictates of the Bibiena and the Venetian influence of Ricci and Canaletto, assumed a sort of predominance over his colleagues, who were often destined to a wandering life in the service of the theatres of the Peninsula. Of fundamental importance for the artist was his stay, at an unspecified date, in Rome 'where he stayed for a long time' and where he 'saw, noted and sketched, all that was ancient and modern in those beautiful surroundings; that he made his own way, easy, diligent and kept painting canvases in tempera, and frescoes on the walls, vague perspectives, introducing colonnades, architecture, arches, and marble veined with their natural colours, all arranged in beautiful sites, with views and distances that are extremely delightful' (Lanzi, 1795, p. 204). 204). The works presented here evoke Lanzi's assumptions very well and not only can they be traced back to the artist's style, but the clear luminosity of the palette in a Venetian-influenced rocaille style suggests their mature date, probably after the third decade.
Reference bibliography:
L. Lanzi, Storia pittorica della Italia, II, 1, Bassano 1795, pp. 204
C. Bandera, Pietro Paltronieri. Il Mirandolese, Mirandola 1990, ad vocem
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