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

Oil on canvas. A Belluno-born painter of the Rococo period, an exponent of the Arcadian school, he was a student of Francesco Zuccarelli with whom he shared the primacy of being the best painter of the genre. In this pleasant pair of vertical landscapes, one can appreciate his loose and light painterly style in the description of nature and the 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 traits that attribute with certainty the authorship 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.