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Description: | Cortona's landscape drawings are extremely rare. With a few exceptions, they were executed almost entirely during his youth, having perhaps been inspired by contact with Claude Lorrain, who during the 1620s was working for the Crescenzi family who patronised Cortona. In common with a series of frescoes Cortona painted for the Villa Sacchetti at Castelfusano from 1626-1629, Cortona's few oil landscapes have a remarkably free, loose brushwork which gives this painting an unexpectedly modern appearance. It is a fresh and personal response to the Roman Campagna. The importance of Cortona's landscapes are in the link that they form between the classicising formality of Annibale Carracci and Domenichino and the move towards more spontaneous observation developed by Claude and Gaspar Dughet. | Subjects: | landscape (Roman campagna); townscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Cortona, Pietro da (Italian draftsman and painter, 1596-1669) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9160... | Go to resource |
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