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Alessio De Marchis (Naples 1684 - Perugia 1752) Pair of paintings: A) Hilly Landscape with Ruined Farmhouse and Stream B) Landscape with Rocks and a Mill on a River Oil on canvas 44 x 57 cm – framed 54 x 67.5 cm One of the most interesting landscape painters of the central-southern cultural area between the 17th and 18th centuries, he studied in Rome in the workshop of Philipp Peter Roos. His artistic development was also influenced by the examples left by Gaspard Dughet and Salvator Rosa, active between Rome and Naples. His career underwent a significant turning point when he became a protégé of the papal Albani family, following an episode in which, in an attempt to make one of his works more realistic, De Marchis set fire to Rome's food granaries to more realistically capture the effect of the fires. This act earned him a long prison sentence, which he spent in Castel Sant'Angelo. The artist later moved to Urbino, where he worked for Cardinal Annibale Albani, nephew of Clement XI, and created numerous works for the papal family, as well as for the local clergy and patricians. His compositions, characterized by rapid, loose brushstrokes, are executed with a freedom of execution that emerges in every touch of color. The two works presented here belong to the artist's mature period and are part of the cycle of thirty-four paintings he created for the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Perugia.