Boomgroep in een bergachtig landschap
1622 - 1666
Medium
paper
Dimensions
383; 282
About this artwork
hoogte 383 mm x breedte 282 mm
Art Historical Context
Pier Francesco Mola's *Boomgroep in een bergachtigschap* (Group of Trees in a Mountain Landscape) captures the raw beauty of nature through a delicate drawing on paper, measuring 383 mm high by 282 mm wide. Created during the artist's active years (1622–6), this work showcases a cluster of trees dramatically set against rugged peaks, evoking the sublime wilderness that fascinated 17th-century European artists. Mola, a Swiss-Italian Baroque based in Rome and Lombardy, was renowned for his landscapes infused with theatrical light and shadow, drawing from Caravaggesque tenebrism and the Bolognes...
About the Artist
Pier Francesco Mola
Pier Francesco Mola (1612–1666) was a Roman Baroque painter celebrated for the lyrical quality of his landscapes and the painterly freedom of his figural work, qualities that set him apart from the more rigorous classicism of some of his contemporaries. Born in Coldrerio in the Swiss canton of Ticino, he spent the greater part of his career in Rome, where he underwent an extensive and eclectic for...