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Jan Frans van Bloemen L'Orizzonte (Anversa, 1662 - Roma, 1749)
Landscape of the Arno Valley near Tivoli
H 150x200 cm - in frame H 168x217 cm
One of the greatest landscape painters, Van Bloemen, in this work, depicts a wide-ranging Arcadian landscape typical of the surroundings of Rome, crossed by the Arno River, with figures carrying out everyday activities, and in the background a village with architecture on a hill.
The structure of the composition is an emblematic example of Bloemian landscape painting and allows us to highlight the fundamental characteristics of his painting style.
The intense touch of green, starting from the bottom with touches of light between the trees, seems to frame the background that gradually proceeds into the distance, characterised by precise brushstrokes in the depiction, of a scenario resplendent with lighter and more delicate hues, tending towards pastel tones until it acquires a diffuse luminosity on the mountains and on the clouds that touch an infinite horizon.
This is Van Bloemen's way of painting in all his representations.
An example that shows how Van Bloemen was able to merge and unify the pictorial tendencies of artists such as Dughet, Lorrain, A. Locatelli, giving more light and brilliance to his works.
The work can be dated to the period of the master's full maturity, a period of very prolific production.
Reference bibliography
L. Salerno Jan Frans Van Bloemen "The Horizon" and the Origin of the Eighteenth-Century Landscape, Rome 1974.
The structure of the composition is an emblematic example of Bloemian landscape painting and allows us to highlight the fundamental characteristics of his painting style.
The intense touch of green, starting from the bottom with touches of light between the trees, seems to frame the background that gradually proceeds into the distance, characterised by precise brushstrokes in the depiction, of a scenario resplendent with lighter and more delicate hues, tending towards pastel tones until it acquires a diffuse luminosity on the mountains and on the clouds that touch an infinite horizon.
This is Van Bloemen's way of painting in all his representations.
An example that shows how Van Bloemen was able to merge and unify the pictorial tendencies of artists such as Dughet, Lorrain, A. Locatelli, giving more light and brilliance to his works.
The work can be dated to the period of the master's full maturity, a period of very prolific production.
Reference bibliography
L. Salerno Jan Frans Van Bloemen "The Horizon" and the Origin of the Eighteenth-Century Landscape, Rome 1974.
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