Paolo Anesi
(Rome 1697 - 1773)

"Landscapes"

Oil on panel
7.87" x 10.43", 20x26.5 cm

These two beautiful  landscapes are attributable to  Paolo Anesi, an important Roman landscapist,  the clues we can read from the themes and stylistic conditions are related to those of the two paintings  "Paesaggi Fantasiosi"  that belong to a Roman private Collection, published  by Andrea Busiri Vici  in his essay ( Trittico Paesistico Romano del '700. Paolo Anesi - Paolo Monaldi - Alessio De Marchis),  and also in many other works of the artist in which Anesi places his typical figures, slim and slender  in wooden landscapes, with soaring trees that reinterpret the pattern  of the roman country side with the typical grace of the Arcadia, that translates into modern language the tradition  of landscape initiated, at  the end of the 16th century, by Annibale Carracci in the  Aldobrandini lunette, and continued, in the 17th century, by artists such as  Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain e Gaspard Doughet.  He was a pupil, with Andrea Locatelli, of the marine painter Bernardino Fergione, but influenced mainly by Jan Frans van Bloemen named Orizzonte, and friend of  Adrien Manglard.  Paolo Anesi worked  on commission for Roman Nobility, for Principe Massimo, Cardinale Ruspoli, Cardinale Valenti, and Cardinale Alessandro Albani, for whom he decorated and frescoed  Villa Albani , now named  Torlonia, maybe his most important achievement.