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Lot description
The most significant merit of this artist was that of being a lucid, appreciated, and ironic interpreter of Piedmontese society in the first half of the XVIII century. The infirmity that afflicted him from birth - he was disabled in both legs - did not prevent him from growing up curious and inventive. Oliviero trained in the shadow of the Piedmontese experiences of the Flemish painters whose artworks had remained in private collections in Turin. His skills and amiable nature enabled him to get into the good graces of the Prince of Piedmont, Vittorio Amedeo II, who always encouraged him to devote himself to the depiction of courtly themes, portraits of the upper-middle class, or courtly life. The painter’s soul was and always will be that of a bamboozler stricto sensu: the scenes depicted by these painters were always original, never failed to illustrate some curious fact, and always portrayed extremely varied themes, as one would expect from a curious investigation of reality.