Giuseppe Zais (Forno di Canale 1709 – Treviso, 1784) - Landscape with figures and ruins, a pair

Oil on canvas. A painter from Belluno during the Rococo period, an exponent of the Arcadian school, he was a student of Francesco Zuccarelli, with whom he shared the distinction of being the best painter of the genre. In this pleasant pair of vertical landscapes, his loose and light pictorialism is appreciated in the description of nature and figures, rich in Arcadian elements such as: the stream with a small bridge, the ruins in the background, the large tree in the foreground with foliage and dry branches. Typical descriptive features that certainly attribute the paternity of the two works. Bibliography C. Donzelli, The Venetian painters of the eighteenth century, Florence 1957 Lucio Grossato, The Civic Museum of Padua: paintings and sculptures from the 14th to the 19th century, Venice, Neri Pozza, 1957 Domenico Sedini, Giuseppe Zais, Artgate online catalog Archived May 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive. of the Cariplo Foundation, 2010, CC-BY-SA. For information and price, please contact 3356030254.