Pietro Graziani (attivo tra la fine del XVII secolo e gli inizi del XVIII) - Due scene di battaglie

Pietro Graziani (active between the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th)
Two battle scenes
Oil on canvas, 24 x 31 cm – With frame, 35 x 42 cm

A genre that found widespread success in seventeenth-century Neapolitan painting and flattering success among collectors was the battle. The nobility loved to adorn the walls of their halls with battles depicting single acts of heroism or complex battles that exalted patriotism and war ability, virtues with which the nobles loved to identify. The Church was also at the forefront of commissions, commissioning artists to depict the spectacular triumphs of Christianity over the infidels.
The present pair of battle scenes, depicting in the first the departure of an army by sea and in the second a clash on a bridge, are to be attributed to the hand of Pietro Graziani, a painter active between the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th and belonging to the Graziani family, which artistic historiography is still trying to outline.
Pietro Graziani is hypothetically the son of Francesco Graziani, known as Ciccio Napoletano. His figure and his production are still being defined, often confused with that of his father but characterized by a more modern language, more similar to eighteenth-century taste, which shows greater verve and looseness of touch.
Pietro's name appears in the inventory regarding two clearly eighteenth-century battles from the Hopeton House collection in Linlighton, noted in the inventories of 1733, 1750 and 1817. And yet another painting from a private collection in Bologna bears the writing "Pietro. . ”.
The merit of this battle consists in the uniform chromatic-luministic vibration, which as in this case, takes on dominant silver and blue tones. It is a painting of very short duration, with an exquisitely decorative purpose and completely uninterested in realistic intentions.

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