Tempera on canvas.
The work refers to the production of Pietro Paltronieri, known as il Mirandolese (native of Mirandola in Emilia Romagna). In Bologna in the 18th century the taste for landscape painting with ruins spread: there was a large production of canvases in which architectural whims manipulated according to classical styles were inserted into rural or coastal landscapes and visions, to express a very particular decorative sensitivity of theatrical inspiration.
Collaboration between figure painters and set designers was also common practice. Among these there is Pietro Paltronieri known as the Mirandolese who assumed a sort of dominance over his colleagues. Paltronieri worked in Bologna, and this work comes from a private collection in Bologna.
It presents a complex of ruins on which the remains of a colonnade and an apse stand out in the foreground in the centre, so perhaps it is the ruins of a church.
Various figures wander among these ruins, in the foreground a woman with a child, other commoners and a handful of soldiers on the floors behind.
It is well suited to creating a backdrop for a theatrical show or at least a wall decoration in a private environment used for public relations.
The canvas, already restored and relined in the past, shows several drops of color.
It is presented in an antique frame.
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