Alessandro Magnasco (Il Lissandrino, 1667 - 1749)

Alessandro Magnasco

Alessandro Magnasco was an Italian painter, one of the most prominent representatives of Genoese Mannerism. In his time he was better known under the nickname Lissandrino (il Lissandrino).

Magnasco painted pictures of nature: grandiose ancient ruins, romantic waterfalls, gorges, forest huts - landscapes populated by small figures of vagabonds in rags, soldiers, travelling monks and beggars with characteristic elongated proportions, walking woodcutters, porters, laundresses. Magnasco's style was close to the searches of Venetian painters of the 18th century.