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Libert & Associés
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17th century italian school. Landscape with fortified town
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132
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17th century italian school. Landscape with fortified town
O…
See original version (French)
Estimate €800 - €1,200
Voluntary lot
Description
17th century italian school. Landscape with fortified town
Oil on canvas
Height 73 cm - Width 98 cm
Arcadian landscape art developed in Italy in the 17th century as an idealised vision of nature, inspired by Antiquity and pastoral poetry. The term "Arcadia" refers to a mythical region of ancient Greece, imagined as a place of harmony between man and nature. In painting, this landscape becomes a peaceful, balanced and luminous setting, where gentle hills, majestic trees, ancient ruins and pastoral scenes mingle.
The painters of the Carracci family - in particular Annibale Carracci - played a key role in this development. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Annibale renewed landscape painting by seeking a balance between the observation of nature and the classical ideal. In his frescoes and paintings, the landscape was no longer a mere background: it became a harmonious space that expressed an almost poetic order of the world.
This concept had a lasting influence on European painting, particularly on artists such as Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, who made the Arcadian landscape one of the great aesthetic models of Classicism.
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