01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #299

Attilio Pratella, (Italian, 1856-1949)

Fishing boats on the Neapolitan coast 

Oil on board

22.8 x 35cm (9 x 13 3/4in)

Private collection

Attilio Pratella (born 1856 in Lugo di Romagna, Italy; died 1949 in Naples, Italy) was an Italian painter. Pratella studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna. He won a scholarship, so he went to Naples to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, where he spent the rest of his life.

His favourite subjects were Naples with its markets and animated waterfronts, along with the neighbouring hills of Vomero, the island of Capri and the coastline of Sorrento.

Pratella's sons Fausto and Paolo, and his daughter Ada were also painters.

His works are exhibited in the main public Italian Modern Art Galleries of Milan, Naples, and Rome.

After Pratella's death, a street in Naples and in Lugo di Romagna was named after him. More on Attilio Pratella

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01 Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #254

Neapolitan school sec. XVII

Galleon coming out of a port

Oil on canvas

cm. 65x82

Private collection

Galleon, full-rigged sailing ship that was built primarily for war, and which developed in the 15th and 16th centuries. The name derived from “galley,” which had come to be synonymous with “war vessel”. A high, square forecastle rose behind the bow, the three or four masts carried both square and fore-and-aft sails, and one or two tiers of guns were carried broadside. The largest galleons were built by the Spanish and the Portuguese for their profitable overseas trade; the famed “Manila galleons” of Spain made an annual trip between Acapulco, Mex., and the Philippines, carrying silver west and raw silk east, for more than 250 years. More on Galleon

Italian School 18th century. The Neapolitan school was very influenced by the Baroque style, along with Caravaggio (paintings by Fracanzano, Saint-Pierre repentant (The penitent Saint Peter), Solimena, L’Annonciation (The Annunciation), Giordano, La Vierge adorant l’Enfant (The Virgin Adoring the Child)…)

Classicism is evident in various ways in the paintings of Vanni, Mola, Agar et l’Ange (Agar and the Angel), Badalocchio or Lorenzo Lippi with the superb Allégorie de la simulation (The Allegory of Simulation).

Finally the Venetian school from the late 18th century is also represented by two of its vedute [stars]: Guardi and the superb Apothéose de la maison Pisani (Apotheosis of the Pisani Family) by Giambattista Tiepolo. More on Italian School 18th century

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02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #134

Lazzaro Pasini, (Italian, 1861-1949)

Neapolitan coastal scene

Oil on canvas

30.5 x 45cm (12 x 17 11/16in).

Private collection

The Neapolitan coast is one of Italy’s most beautiful stretch of coast, home to stunning scenery, colourful towns and fishermen’s ports. 

Lazzaro Pasini (1861–1949) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes, but also some genre works. A pupil of engraver Romualdo Belloli, in Reggio Emilia, the city of his birth, Lazzaro Pasini moved to Florence after obtaining a scholarship to study at the Academy. He frequented Giovanni Fattori’s studio and, attracted by macchia style of painting, he devoted himself to executing landscapes of the Tuscan countryside from life. In 1884, he made his debut at the National Exposition of Turin with a genre scene based on a social theme. Similar themes became a constant feature of his work following his move to Milan in 1886, where he came into contact with exponents of Lombard Naturalism. At the beginning of the 20th century he became interested in the technique of separating colors to achieve effects of heightened luminism in works of a religious nature and in his first Lombard views, which won him the gold medal from the Ministry of Education in 1918. His mature works were devoted mainly to landscape painting, with a return to a late 19th-century naturalistic language. He died in Milan in 1949. More on Lazzaro Pasini

Lazzaro Pasini, (Italian, 1861-1949)

Neapolitan coastal scene

Oil on canvas

30.5 x 45cm (12 x 17 11/16in).

Private collection

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