Carnival in Venice with Harlequin, Marco Marcola (Verona, 1711 – 1780)

Marco Marcola (Verona, 1711 – 1780)

Carnival scene with harlequin and masks from the Commedia dell'Arte

Oil painting on canvas
cm. 60 x 82 – In frame 77 x 100 cm.

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The canvas reflects the typical Venetian stylistic characteristics and the author is influenced, in terms of the theme of the scene and the pictorial style, by the Tiepolo culture and in particular by the Veronese master Marco Marcola (Verona, 1740 – 1793), an Italian painter of the Rococo period coming from a renowned family of artists, trained in the atelier of his father Giovanni Battista (Verona, 1711 – 1780), together with his brothers Nicola, Francesco and his sister Angela, becoming protagonists of the Veronese artistic world of the second half of the eighteenth century.

The subject and style are typical of Marcola's repertoire: a scene full of characters in carnival costume, including Harlequin, Colombina, Brighella and Doctor Balanzone, depicted in a joyful and festive attitude.

These are masks from the ancient Commedia dell'Arte, a theatrical genre celebrated during the traditional Carnival, the pivotal event that made Venice famous, combining the city's charm with the power of theater. Today, as in the past, the shows were improvised by masked actors in the streets and squares.

Marco's initial work was devoted to decorating villas in the Verona area, as can be seen in the frescoes of Palazzo Allegri in Verona and Villa Canossa in Grezzano, where he left some of his most pleasing images of everyday life.

But also popular were the subjects that immortalised the city of Venice with its masks and its celebrations, especially those of a carnival nature, as documented for example by 'The Preparations for the Carnival' (Palazzo Pellegrini a S. Cecilia, Verona) or the series of four canvases 'Arlecchinate' (Carlo Schmidl Civic Theatre Museum).

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