Capriccio Veneziano

CAPRICCIO VENEZIANO

TEMPERA GRASSA SU TELA 72 x 98 cm, original XIX secolo

In the tradition of Venetian vedutismo, this wonderful composition expresses its sense of color and the “colorism” of which its sound pervades the opera of the great master of the genere, Francesco and Giacomo Guardi in the first place.

CAPRICCIO VENEZIANO

TEMPERA GRASSA SU TELA 72 x 98 cm, original XIX secolo

In the tradition of Venetian vedutismo, this wonderful composition expresses its sense of color and the “colorism” of which its sound pervades the opera of the great master of the genere, Francesco and Giacomo Guardi in the first 

The whim, or "vised view", in Venetian painting is configured as a real genre, that is, as the art of composing the landscape through the free combination of real or fantastic architectural elements, reworked ruins of antiquity, figures and specks, according to a variety of declinations ranging from the grotesque to the visionary, from the picturesque to the elegiac.

The great fortune of this kind was due to the numerous European patrons who loved to enrich their magions with these fantastic works, evocative of Venice.

Even today the 'Venetian whims' are among the most appreciated and requested works by collectors of ancient art for their limited presence on the market and for the furnishing importance that has remained unchanged to the present day.