Attilio Pratella - A glimpse of heaven

Features

A glimpse of heaven

Artist: Attilio Pratella (1856-1949)

Artwork title: Scorcio di cielo

Age: 19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Subject: Landscape

Artistic technique: Painting

Technical specification: Oil on Plywood

Description : Scorcio di cielo

Oil on plywood. Signed in the bottom left of the page. An intense glimpse of blue sky and white clouds, overlooking a corner of land with the cottage. Although a native of Lugo di Ravenna, Attilio Pratella is one of the most important landscape painters of the neapolitan dell'800, being trained and then having lived and worked in Naples. While privileging the views of the neapolitan gulf and its islands, of which extolled the beauty and brightness, and the characteristic corners of the city made in the aspects of folk life, which the soul, are not missed in its production the views and landscape of the surrounding countryside. The present painting in the frame.

Product Condition:
Product in very good condition that may show slight traces of wear; may have undergone restoration work carried out by an expert.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 23
Width: 34
Depth: 2

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 10
Width: 18

Additional Information

Artist: Attilio Pratella (1856-1949)

Born in Lugo di Romagna in 1856, Attilio Pratella initially enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, but having obtained a scholarship, he moved to Naples where he studied alongside Puccinelli, Palizzi and Morelli. Here he exercised his artistic activity until his death, flanked by Casciaro and Dalbono. Pratella resumed the themes of the so-called School of Posillipo, but with a stroke of greater modernity and freshness, overcoming the purely picturesque aspect compared to other contemporary painters and creating works of great poetic suggestion. Above all, he created marinas and, in medium-small size formats, the corners of a Naples on the verge of extinction, the alleys, the lowlands, the alleys, the popular markets. Like Casciaro and numerous other artists active in the Campanian city, Pratella preferred oil painting, although sometimes also adopting the pastel technique. Starting from 1881, he exhibited continuously in the Neapolitan exhibitions of the Promotrice Salvator Rosa, until the second decade of the twentieth century. From this date, in fact, annoyed by the popularity created around the great names of twentieth-century Neapolitan painting, he no longer wanted to take part in group exhibitions, preferring to exhibit his paintings only in his personal exhibitions.n

Age: 19th Century / 1801 - 1900

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Subject: Landscape

Artistic technique: Painting

La pittura è l'arte che consiste nell'applicare dei pigmenti a un supporto come la carta, la tela, la seta, la ceramica, il legno, il vetro o un muro. Essendo i pigmenti essenzialmente solidi, è necessario utilizzare un legante, che li porti a uno stadio liquido, più fluido o più denso, e un collante, che permetta l'adesione duratura al supporto. Chi dipinge è detto pittore o pittrice. Il risultato è un'immagine che, a seconda delle intenzioni dell'autore, esprime la sua percezione del mondo o una libera associazione di forme o un qualsiasi altro significato, a seconda della sua creatività, del suo gusto estetico e di quello della società di cui fa parte.