Alessandro Magnasco: 6 works

'It has been attributed to a variety of painters in the past, including Agostino Carracci, Andrea Sacchi and Salvator Rosa, of whom Magnasco was a follower. Magnasco was a Genoese painter who favoured dramatic landscapes, forcefully rendered, often featuring furious storms.'

'Against the sober classical ruins, Alessandro Magnasco gave the scene an expressive urgency with his characteristically agitated drapery and rapidly sketched, attenuated musculature.'

'A first class example of the creative collaboration between Magnasco and Clemente Spera, a well-known master of "ruin- painting".'

'His collaborator Clemente Spera probably painted the architectural views.'

'Magnasco made this painting and its pendant, The Triumph of Venus, in Milan early in his career. His collaborator Clemente Spera probably painted the architectual ruins.'

'The small canvas Hermit in the Desert by Magnasco, "il Lissandrino", presents the painter`s unmistakable sketchy and nervous style, showing stylised figures of monks, bandits or beggars immersed in rugged landscape with cloudy skies and unreal spluttering lights.'