Nomentano and Salario Bridge Rome 1760
Nomentano and Salario Bridge Rome 1760
Very fine pair of oil on canvas paintings depicting landscapes with Ponte Salario and Ponte Nomentano over the Aniene River in Rome, within carved wood frames gilded with gold leaf.
Roman landscape painter of the second half of the 18th century, c. 1760.
Attributable to the workshop or circle of Paolo Anesi (1697-1773).
Early 19th-century antique frames.
Dimensions of canvas only approx. 14 x 40 cm ; framed approx. 29 x 56 cm.
Excellent condition commensurate with age.
Paolo Anesi (1697–1773) was an Italian painter of the 18th century, active mainly in painting capriccios and landscapes (vedute) in the style of Giovanni Paolo Pannini.
Born in Florence, he trained with Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari and Bernardino Fergioni. He was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca and to the Congregation of the Virtuosi of the Pantheon (1747).
He collaborated with Paolo Monaldi in a number of works, described as Bambocciata or genre scenes with peasants. Anesi contributed the landscape and architecture. Together they were hired in 1763-1766 by Cardinal Flavio Chigi to decorate his villa outside of Porta Salaria. These frescoes and paintings were removed and sold, and consisted of large canvases depicting:
Landscape with Vista of Borgheto
Fantasy Landscape (Capriccio) of Lazio with dancing figures and river
Vedute of Ariccia
Fantasy Landscape (Capriccio) of Roman Ruins and Figures
Among his pupils was Francesco Zuccarelli. Anesi completed also a Views of Rome series containing both The Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine.
