Rassegnati o Rassegnazione

Resigned or Resignation

Oil on canvas, 205×180 cm Before 1914 Siena, Monte dei Paschi di Siena Collection Exhibited in Rome in 1914, the canvas offers an image of life lived in total indigence, photographed with implacable realism: a man in his underwear is trying to get warm next to the embers in a

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Ritratto del Niccolai

Portrait of Niccolai

Oil on canvas, 57.7×36.8 cm Signed twice in red, at the bottom Circa 1897-1908 Manciano, private collection Here Pascucci portrays a fellow townsman distinguished by his interesting, eccentric physiognomy: a long, flowing beard, red like his moustache and hair, Norman colouring; a full, ruddy, smiling face that exudes vitality and

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Bozzetto per Gli Apostoli o Il Giovedì Santo

Bozzetto for The Apostles or Holy Thursday

Oil on canvas. 30.5×72 cm Signed at lower right Circa 1908 Pitigliano, private collection This oil sketch for The Apostles already clearly indicates the final composition, luminous and rhythmic, but the faces are mere quick touches of the brush; they would later be the object of detailed study, like the

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È morta la vacca

The Cow Died

Oil on canvas, 116×160 cm Signed at lower left Before 1909 Siena, Collection of the City of Siena As in the preceding painting, here too Pascucci deals with a complex articulation of light which cuts partially through a dark space: around a table set for a simple meal are gathered

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I calzolai o Ciabattini o Veglia laboriosa

The Shoemakers or Cobblers or Working Late

Oil on canvas, 44.5×53.5 cm Signed at lower right Before 1905 Manciano, private collection Exhibited in Rome in 1905, the painting is one of a group of works in which Pascucci studies the effects of artificial light in dark environments to draw forth vivid plays of colour. The oil lamp

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Il riposo del pastore o Giacobbe addormentato

The Repose of the Shepherd or Jacob Sleeping

Oil on canvas, 73×93 cm 1901 Siena, Collection of the Società di Esecutori di Pie Disposizioni In early 1902 Pascucci sent this picture, under the title The Repose of the Shepherd, to the Società di Esecutori di Pie Disposizioni to obtain an extension of the Biringucci fellowship, granted for another

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La mietitura - Paride Pascucci

La mietitura

The Wheat Harvest Oil on canvas, 64.5×117.5 cm 1900 Siena, Collection of the Società di Esecutori di Pie Disposizioni This painting was sent to the Società di Esecutori di Pie Disposizioni in 1901 as the second sample of his work for the Biringucci fellowship, with the request that the fellowship

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Eroi di Maremma - Paride Pascucci

Heroes of Maremma

Oil on canvas, 75×95 cm 1895 Signed and dated at lower left Florence, CR Firenze art collection In a cold, sparely furnished room a man lies on a bed, dead before his time of malaria, despite the attempts to heal him testified by the quantity of scallions packed into the

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Klaes Molenaer (Haarlem 1628/29 - 1676)
Paesaggio invernale

Winter Landscape 

Klaes Molenaer (Haarlem 1628/29 – 1676)  Winter Landscape  Oil on canvas, 72 x 102 cm The seventeenth century saw the flourishing rise in Holland of the winter landscape genre, well represented by this painting which, above and beyond the individual figurative elements typical of this artist’s repertory, evidences his vocation

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Jan van Goyen (Leida 1596 - L’Aja 1656)
Paesaggio fluviale con pescatori

Maritime Landscape with Fishermen

Jan van Goyen (Leiden 1596 – The Hague 1656) Maritime Landscape with Fishermen Oil on wood (oak), 47.5 x 62 cm (oval) Signed and dated at lower right, under the dock 1635 f JVG The atmosphere of suspension and contemplation, underlined by the limited palette, lifts the humble daily life

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