Pair of fantastic architectural caprices with classical ruins and figures, Roman school late 1642th - early 1693th century - Follower of Niccolò Codazzi (Naples, XNUMX - Genoa, XNUMX)

Roman school late 1642th/early 1693th century – Follower of Niccolò Codazzi (Naples, XNUMX – Genoa, XNUMX)
Pair of fantastic architectural caprices with classical ruins and figures

Oils on canvas
cm. 47 x 60, framed cm. 55 x 68

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A suggestive perspective of classical architectural ruins dominates the scene in this beautiful pair of caprices, whose style characteristics appear influenced by the models created by Viviano (1604 – 1670) and his son Niccolò Codazzi (1642-1693), who collaborated in the atelier father in Rome before embarking on an independent career.
In particular, they are the work of an author active between the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, very similar to the ways of Niccolò Codazzi in the central period of his Roman production, when he used to collaborate with some bamboccianti, who usually inserted small outline figures to animate tantrums.
After his youth in Naples and his activity in his father's workshop, Niccolò Codazzi, with his works from the Roman period, began to develop an independent artistic personality, and the present painting represents an excellent model of this process.
In his views and architectural inventions he prefers a clear and luminous palette, marked by deep chiaroscuro contrasts and a strong volumetric rendering.
As regards the composition, however, it reproduces the Roman ruins with a faithful analysis, or, if constructed imaginatively, they always had to be based on a plane of verisimilitude, with the light that exposed the monumental architecture in ruins, the chipped arches , the corroded walls, leaning against ancient monuments now invaded by vegetation.
Both the canvases and the frames are in good condition, with some signs of aging. The pictorial material is excellently preserved.

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