Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli (Turin, 1730-1800) Landscape with dilapidated bridge, fishermen and travelers, circa 1760 Oil on canvas, 102 x 119 cm. Unpublished. SOLD In Cignaroli's works, the life of the Piedmontese peasant class appears very different from reality: it is misrepresented for the enjoyment of salons, in a succession of peaceful and graceful shepherdesses, dances and hunts within a perennial spring universe. Cignaroli's canvases, in fact, were not meant to be realistic: they were meant to present an idealized and gentle world, destined to embellish noble residences. Inspired by the engravings of Gabriel Pérelle, well-known to him through the collections inherited from his father Scipione, integrated with details taken from engravings by Nicolaes Berchem, Cignaroli creates here a canvas... (see Giamblanco catalog 2015) [Arabella Cifani] English version VITTORIO AMEDEO CIGNAROLI (Turin, 1730 – 1800) Landscape with fisherman and riders, circa 1770 Oil on canvas, cm 36 x 47 Unpublished Arcadia literary academy was founded in 1690 in Rome to restore an appreciation for bucolic art and poetry and, in 18th-century Piedmont, the popularity of Arcadian landscapes in the arts (of which Cignaroli was the most important painter) was boosted thanks to eager collectors who, like in the rest of Italy, turned it into something fashionable. This trend sprang and spread due to interest in interior décors, paintings, boiseries, and lambris, that fostered and strengthened Piedmont art market. Therefore, Cignaroli became especially sought-after because he expressed a view of art that purported to represent a landscape conveying such feelings and fascinations that surpassed those experienced through nature itself. In fact, his paintings are free from any element that reminds of Nature’s transience or the passing of time. Cignaroli captures fleeting moments… (see GALLERIA GIAMBLANCO DIPINTI ANTICHI Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Allemandi, 2015) [Arabella Cifani] For more info send us an email: galleria@giamblanco.com Follow us on Facebook Go to the main site