Francesco Fidanza

Pair of paintings, oil on canvas, measuring 80 x 100 cm without frame and 90 x 110 cm with contemporary frame, depicting a stormy seascape and a seascape at dawn by the painter Francesco Fidanza (Rome 1747 – Milan 119). To further reinforce this thesis on Fidanza's skillful pictorial art, the characteristics of the pictorial rendering of these paintings come to our aid, in the skillful use of a very luminous material, in the peremptory detachment between the areas in light and those in shadow, in the execution of the lively figures that populate the theatrical scaffolding and in the rendering of the rosy clouds. The main characteristics of Fidanza's painting are the airy breadth of the panoramas and the sense of diffused luminosity which precisely recall an almost neoclassical painting. The landscape motif, even in the most imaginative illuminations, always has a real starting point in Fidanza and therefore a genuine and human dimension; in these paintings we can see the blacks, the grays so bright and vivid that they try to explain to us how enormous the force of nature around us is with that window where the rainbow is arriving and in which we lose ourselves; in the same way we see in the second marina how the sea and nature itself is beautiful, strong, vigorous but at the same time sweet and docile. In our stormy sea with a landscape on the left we have a boat, in great difficulty, ready to run aground, while the sailors, already plunged into the lifeboat, are trying to save themselves on the cliff. Here we can see Fidanza's skillful pictorial force both in the perspective construction of the marina in the storm with a game of intelligent positions, and in the delicate representation of the landscape with a very articulated representation with a special mention for the water that will break against the cliff. We are faced with a sensational storm scene in which ships and the boat are now at the mercy of the wind and especially the sea; The effects of light create a visual drama in the marriage between the darkness of the sea and in particular the majesty of its waves and the lightning with the dynamic and expressive force of the storm clouds. The second work is an airy "Landscape" at dawn with numerous boats ready to leave and some people enjoying the sea breeze and the colors of dawn on the cliff. The Arcadian interpretation of nature, with a refined imprint and at the same time with a more instinctive and less constructed inventiveness, close to the more genuinely rural visions and pictorially more full-bodied, approaching an almost Zuccarelli-like work, is one of the main characteristics of Fidanza. The paintings and art objects published here are my exclusive property and consequently are always available to be viewed in person, by appointment, in my exhibition locations located in Sanremo and Brescia. The work, like all our objects, is sold with a FIMA photographic certificate of authenticity and legitimate provenance; this document identifies the object adding value to the item. We personally handle and organize the packaging and shipping of works of art with insurance worldwide. Dr. Riccardo Moneghini Art Historian