International studio (17.1902)

Studio- Talk

FRESCO IN THE CHURCH OF S. VITALE, NAPLES

(See'^Naples Studio- Talk)]

BY P. VETRI

ness. Indeed, painting
is, for this artist, an un-
failing refuge from the
worries of the world, and
he approaches it in the
spirit of a truly Platonic
idealist.

Specially noticeable
among the work of the
younger artists are the
contributions of Marzi and
of Ferro. The former
sends a little genre picture
called The Painter, remark-
able for the atmosphere
and colour-values of the
interior and the expression
and movement of the
old painter, over whose
shoulder peers at the
canvas a young model,
probably his daughter.
There is no attempt to
take the spectator by pretti-
ness ; it is not in the

Cannicci gives us four
especially characteristic pic-
tures : wide stretches of
moorland, empty of figures,
or populated with the
peasants and herds which
seem to have sprung out of
the soil j the whole suffused
by the delicate sadness
which seems to possess the
very soul of this painter of
the Maremma, with its in-
finite pathos of nature,
man and beast.

Fattori delights us again
with the inimitable “go ” ot
his horses and soldiers,
though his drawing con-
tinues as casual as ever.

Senno’s landscapes are
solid, poetical, synthetic ;
expressions evidently of
his innermost conscious-
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FRESCO IN THE CHURCH OF S. VITALE, NAPLES

(See Naples Studio-Talk)

BY P. VETRI