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attribuito a Alessandro Salucci (attivo a Firenze nel XVII secolo) e Michelangelo Cerquozzi (Roma, 1602 - 1666)
a) Capriccio architettonico con porticato ionico e edificio con cupola sullo sfondo ; b) Capriccio architettonico in un animato porto e ruderi sullo sfondo
pair on oil on canvas
cm 120x170 cad.
The attribution of the beautiful pair of paintings presented here to Alessandro Salucci with the collaboration of Michelangelo Cerquozzi were advanced by Professor Vincenzo Pacelli in a written communication to the owners dated 1995.
The scholar gave the two paintings to the maturity of the artist, when Salucci, with his interest in decorative finesse, anticipated the painting of architecture of the late seventeenth century. The fantastic architectures, which have well-defined contours to create the effect of depth, derive in a certain way from the architectural conception of Viviano Codazzi, whose works were known to Salucci.
The small-format figures of the two compositions document everyday life in 17th-century Rome, and are typical of the collaboration between the two painters. A notable example of this collaboration is the two landscapes of the Pallavicini Gallery in Rome.
Born in Florence but Roman for his artistic roots, Alessandro Salucci is documented in Rome for the first time in 1628 and from the mid-thirties onwards Salucci collaborates with Cerquozzi, a pupil first of the Cavalier d'Arpino and then of the Flemish Pieter Van Laer, called the Baby.
€ 30.000,00 / 40.000,00
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