ALESSIO DE MARCHIS (attr. a)
(Naples, 1684 - Perugia,... Lot 54
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ALESSIO DE MARCHIS (attr. a)
(Naples, 1684 - Perugia, 1752)
Landscape
Oil on canvas, 74X100 cm
This lovely landscape is attributed to the painter Alessio de Marchis. The biographical information about him are provided by Nicola Pio and Abbot Lanzi, who say he was in Rome around 1702 at the workshop of Rosa da Tivoli. After moving to Urbino to fresco the palace of Cardinal Annibale Albani, probably in conjunction with the renovations carried out around 1730 by the architect Luigi Vanvitelli, he also painted the panels in the sacristy of the Confraternity of St. Joseph and other works for the Chapter of the Cathedral of Perugia. Our canvas is therefore datable to his early maturity, when the influences of Roman landscape painting, expressed through fast and bushy brushstrokes, are diluted through a delicately eighteenth-century language that De Marchis expresses with singular personality and pre-Romantic hints and sensitivity of Venetian taste.
Reference bibliography:
A. Busiri Vici, Roman landscape triptych of the 18th century, Rome 1976, pp. 157 ; 210 ; 297 ; 333
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