Attributed to Filippo D'Angeli - Seaside City, Landscape with Figures in Pozzuoli

The subject of the urban landscape was already present in the Middle Ages and Modern Ages, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It is worth remembering that immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings. The present work has been attributed to Filippo D'Angeli, a painter who lived between the 16th and 17th centuries, based on an appraisal by restorer Daniela Campagnola. This artist's work frequently features urban landscapes, city views captured from afar and set against a nocturnal backdrop, as in the present work.

The work displays excellent pictorial quality in delineating the landscape through precise and detailed description, while maintaining a great freshness of execution and a certain visionary quality. Indeed, although the artist is committed to great realism in his depiction, his brushstrokes are extremely free and loose, at times synthetic. This allows the objects to blend perfectly into the atmosphere and imbues the entire landscape with a lively and natural quality. This descriptive realism and this interest in the everyday life of the urban world may be related to a certain Flemish influence, which may have influenced the artist's training. The use of light is especially extraordinary. Indeed, the usual dark atmosphere, typical of painting between the late 16th and early 17th centuries, is shattered by sudden flashes of light that, with perfect direction, illuminate the urban agglomeration and are reflected in the water with silvery gleams.

The work has been attributed by an expert report by restorer Daniela Campagnola (based on a report compiled by art historian Giuliano Briganti) to Filippo D'Angeli, whose real name was Filippo Teodoro di Liagno and who was also known as Filippo Napoletano. He was a Roman artist, born in 1589 and died in 1629, but soon moved to Naples, where his training was strongly influenced by the Flemish artists present in the city. Returning to Rome in 1914, he joined the circle of artists protected by Cardinal Del Monte. He is remembered above all for his landscapes, which are realistic in nature, but always set in evocative, visionary nocturnal atmospheres.

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