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    • FRANCESCO AVIANI Venice, Italy (1662) / Vicenza, Italy (1715) "Architectural whim with vanitas"
      Jun. 25, 2024

      FRANCESCO AVIANI Venice, Italy (1662) / Vicenza, Italy (1715) "Architectural whim with vanitas"

      Est: €45,000 - €60,000

      Oil on canvas Francesco Aviani is a painter specialized in the representation of “Architectural Caprices”, with a very particular style that combines the tradition of perspective painters with landscapes of a more naturalistic nature. Although born in Venice, his work developed mainly in Vicenza, whose architecture, marked by Palladio, is reflected more or less explicitly in his works. Although there is no documentation in this regard, the connection between Aviani and the Bolognese architect and set designer Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (1657 – 1743) and other painters such as Giambattista Lambranzi (act.1667-1700) seems evident. The present work brings together all the characteristic elements of the painter's mature style, around 1710, comparable to the one preserved in the Museo Civico of Vicenza (91 x 134.5 cm, oil on canvas, inventory number A64). Among them the presidency of a very powerful architectural scenography, with a marked perspective, full of classical statues such as that of Hercules, which gives way to a more bucolic and naturalistic landscape, finished in cold tones to increase the sensation of depth of the landscape. Furthermore, the entire work is animated with animals and figures in different poses and attitudes, highlighting a small group on the left side, which mourns a corpse that is going to be thrown into the river. This group, watched by a statue of Crono on high, turns the work into an allegory of the passage of time, a vanitas in short. This is confirmed by an engraving by Ambrogio Orio (1737 – 1825) that represents this work, or a very similar version, since there are slight variants in the figures, which has the following inscription: “Vanitati pur di queste Opre famose,/Umano igegno; ma l'orgaglio abbassa/ Al sol pensier, che te co le tue cose/Il tempo struggitor urta e fracassa.” Measurements: 91 x 134 cm

      Ansorena
    • FRANCESCO AVIANI - Due capricci architettonici con personaggi
      May. 25, 2024

      FRANCESCO AVIANI - Due capricci architettonici con personaggi

      Est: -

      Due capricci architettonici con personaggi Coppia di oli su tela, 134x182 cm Il capriccio architettonico è un genere pittorico in cui realtà e fantasia si intrecciano: templi, palazzi e chiese, veri o verosimili, spesso in rovina, vengono rappresentati per la gratificazione dell'esercizio prospettico e per suscitare una suggestione emotiva. Non stupisce che la terra di maggior sviluppo del capriccio sia Roma, con le infinite fonti di ispirazione offerte dalle rovine dell'Impero, tuttavia non vanno trascurati anche altri centri in cui questo genere ebbe successo: nella Repubblica di Venezia, ad esempio, i più importanti pittori del XVII e XVIII secolo si cimentarono in questi esercizi di stile, come nel caso delle nostre due importanti tele, in cui protagoniste sono straordinarie architetture in rovina e le poche figure umane sono un mero contorno. L'autore, Francesco Aviani, è pittore attivo quasi esclusivamente a Vicenza e dintorni, soprattutto come frescante e prospettico paesaggista. E' autore di complesse macchie architettoniche ricche di dettagli e personaggi ed è per questo considerato da Rodolfo Pallucchini un precursore del capriccio architettonico veneziano del settecento.

      Meeting Art Casa D'Aste
    • FRANCESCO AVIANI
      Sep. 24, 2016

      FRANCESCO AVIANI

      Est: -

      FRANCESCO AVIANI 1662 Vicenza - 1715 ebenda (attr.) PAAR CAPRICCI: ARCHITEKTURSTÜCKE MIT FIGURENSTAFFAGE BEI NACHT Öl auf Leinwand. 116 cm x 148 cm. Links unten undeutlich monogrammiert (ungedeutet). Part. altrest. Rahmen. Provenienz: Privatbesitz Österreich. Eine prächtige und gleichsam dominante Kulisse barocker Architektur bei Nacht wird vom Schein mehrerer Fackeln in Szene gesetzt. Spielerisch agierende Figurengruppen lockern die strenge Perspektive der Szene auf und bringen Dynamik ins Bild. Gleich zwei dieser kunstvollen Architekturstücke, sogenannte Capricci, werden hier als Paar angeboten. Die beiden, im späten 17. Jahrhundert entstandenen, Gemälde zeugen vom Einfluss venezianischer Malerei, in dessen Tradition der mögliche Meister der Gemälde gearbeitet hat. Der in Vicenza geborene Francesco Aviani schuf neben Architekturszenen ebenso Landschaften oder Seestücke. Aufgrund von Elementen der Dekorations- und Ruinenmalerei wurde auch ein Aufenthalt des Künstlers in der Region Emilia angenommen. Die Spezialität Avianis waren Architektur-Perspektiven. Neben Gemälden, von denen heute drei im Museo Civico in Vicenza zu finden sind (Inv. Nr. A-64, A-65, A-66), arbeitete er auch an Decken- und Wandfresken in kirchlichen Einrichtungen und Villen.

      Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen Düsseldorf
    • Francesco Aviani [cerchia di], Dafne.
      Dec. 11, 2015

      Francesco Aviani [cerchia di], Dafne.

      Est: €2,500 - €5,000

      Olio su tela. cm 114x122.

      Gonnelli Casa d'Aste
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