Giuseppe Zais (Forno di Canale 1709 – Treviso, 1784) – Landscape with characters and ruins

Epoch: 18th century

Oil on canvas.
A Bellunese painter of the Rococo period, an exponent of the Arcadian school, he was a pupil of Francesco Zuccarelli with whom he shared the record as the best painter of the genre. In this pleasing pair of vertical landscapes one appreciates his loose and light pictorialism in the description of nature and characters, rich in Arcadian elements such as: the stream with small bridge, the ruins in the background, and the large tree in the foreground with crown and dry branches. Typical descriptive traits that attribute the authorship of the two works with certainty. Bibliography C. Donzelli, I pittori veneti del Settecento, Florence 1957 Lucio Grossato, Il Museo civico di Padova: dipinti e sculture dal 14. at 19. century, Venice, Neri Pozza, 1957 Domenico Sedini, Giuseppe Zais, Artgate online catalog Archived May 16, 2016, in Internet Archive. by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC-BY-SA.