Pair Of Paintings Depicting Views Of Venice

Pair of oil paintings on canvas, depicting views of Venice: "The Salute church with the entrance to the Grand Canal" and "Piazza San Marco with the Doge's Palace".
The description of the places, the characterization of the characters and the happy pictorial rendering with the bright colors with the tones and timbres typical of the Posillipo School, are definitely part of the painting methods of the Neapolitan school of the second half of the 19th century which still reworks the defined codes from Pitiloo and Gigante.
We can calmly advance the paternity of the two canvases to the hand of the painter Salvatore Fergola or rather of his son Francesco Fergola Junior, who often attempted, as is well known and documented, in proposing similar views of Venice to satisfy the requests of travelers on the Grand Tour , together with the famous views of the Neapolitan gulf.
Naples, Venice, Rome and Florence were fundamental stages of the cultural journey of nineteenth-century tourism, and the related views were a special aptitude of the Fergolas.

Measurements with frame: 110 x 90 cm;
Canvas measurements: 72 x 56 cm.