Antonio Maria Marini Lot n° 1159

(Venice, 1668 - 1725) Battaglia Oil on canvas, 52X120 cm This war scene of obvious Venetian taste shows pictorial suggestions à la Marco Ricci and Rosian memories. The pictorial technique all of touch and impasto, shows fast almost instinctive brushstrokes, typical of Antonio Maria Marini, especially catching the evolution in a fully eighteenth-century and romantic key of the landscape and the figures in spots. This perception can be grasped by carefully observing the scenic construction, conceived with Rococo sensibility by discreetly but very successfully uniting the noble strands of Paesismo and Capriccio veneto. As for the suggestions inferred from Salvator Rosa, it is assumed that the artist learned them during his stay in Florence at the Medici court, while the atmospheric sensibility appears indebted as much as ever to the creations of Pieter Mulier known as the Tempest. The result is an interpretation of the landscape of extraordinary chromatic happiness. Reference bibliography: L. Muti, D. DE Sarno Prignano, Antonio Marini, Rimini, 1991, ad vocem M. Silvia Proni, Antonio Maria Marini. Opera completa, Naples, 1992, ad vocem R. Pallucchini, La pittura nel Veneto. Il Settecento, Milan, 1995, I, pp. 222-227