Raffaele Faccioli - Untitled

Landscape has always played a leading role in artistic research, both as a setting and a background, but also as a subject in its own right. The naturalistic description of landscape has been one of the greatest aspirations for artists of every era. Each historical period has given its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its description: first with a research into space, through Brunelleschian perspective in the early Renaissance; then on the rendering of atmosphere in the sixteenth century; up to the representation of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

The style of the Bolognese painter Raffaele Faccioli fits perfectly into a late nineteenth-century context in which many artists, especially in Italy, still showed a strong connection to the classicist tradition but, at the same time, were open to the impressionist and realist innovations coming from France. As we can also see from this landscape, in fact, the general layout of the work is exquisitely classical. The artist conceives a composition of perfect balance in which every element is in its place. A precise direction in which the bridge appears in a central position as the main element surrounded by a large portion of landscape. The character of the work is that of a clear and serene view in which Faccioli proves himself a perfect executor of an extraordinary naturalistic rendering. In this sense, the contributions of modernity mentioned just before are decisive. Indeed, Faccioli's descriptive precision is supported and enhanced by a fast execution that places its strength on the expressive qualities of color. The view is endowed with depth of field but the space is measured entirely through very subtle tonal transitions, so that the entire surface of the work is characterized by atmospheric coherence. Everything therefore appears alive and vibrant through a pictorial technique that knows the complexity of reality. Extraordinary also is the use of light that expands clear throughout the landscape concentrating golden highlights on the walls of the bridge.

Raffaele Faccioli was a Bolognese painter born in 1845 and passed away in 1916. He trained in his city in a realist pictorial environment thanks to the teachings of Luigi Busi, later he continued his studies in Florence and Rome. Faccioli soon had success with both critics and the public, so much so that in 1867 his painting “Il giorno dei morti” was purchased by Vittorio Emanuele II. He received numerous awards in national exhibitions such as the Parma Exhibition of 1870, that of Bologna in 1875 and the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873. His works are preserved at the National Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. From 1879 to 1905 he was president of the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna.

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