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'MON CHER PASINI, NE NéGLIGEZ PAS DE PRENDRE FINEMENT ET SCRUPULEUSEMENT LES DéTAILS DES CHOSES, ON REGRETTE CELA QUAND ON NE L'A PAS FAIT SUR PLACE... CE QUI EST FAIT TOUT SIMPLEMENT EST TOUJOURS JEUNE ET DE TOUTE MANIèRE L'ART LA MEILLEURE' (THéODORE CHASSéRIAU TO ALBERTO PASINI, OCTOBER 1855).
ALBERTO PASINI IS INDEED THE MOST CELEBRATED AMONG ITALIAN ORIENTALISTS. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 1850S HE LEFT ITALY FOR PARIS WHERE HE MET THE ARTIST THéDORE CHASSéRIAU, AND, THROUGH HIM, THE DIPLOMAT PROSPER BOURéE, WHO WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE ON AN OFFICIAL MISSION TO PERSIA. PASINI WAS INVITED TO ACCOMPANY BOURéE AS HIS PERSONAL PAINTER AND, IN MARCH 1855, STARTED HIS LONG TRIP TO THE ORIENT, WHICH WAS TO LAST A YEAR AND A HALF. IN THE COURSE OF THIS ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY, THE ARTIST VISITED EGYPT, SAUDI ARABIA, SOUTH YEMEN AND THE PERSIAN GULF, AND WAS COMMISSIONED BY THE SHAH OF PERSIA TO EXECUTE NUMEROUS PAINTINGS. PASINI RETURNED TO FRANCE IN 1856, VIA THE BLACK SEA AND CONSTANTINOPLE. ONCE BACK IN PARIS, HE BEGAN TO PAINT, DEVELOPING THE FORMAL CONCEPTS AND THE CHROMATIC IDEAS OF THE HUNDREDS OF BOZZETTI HE HAD SCRUPULOUSLY GATHERED IN HIS TRAVELS.
VIA DEL CAIRO IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF PASINI'S STYLE OF THE EARLY 1860S. AS A. BABONI COMMENTS IN THE CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITION ALBERTO PASINI, DA PARMA A COSTANTINOPOLI VIA PARIGI (PARMA, 1996, P. 45): 'ED ECCO, DAGLI ANNI SESSANTA, DELINEARSI LE TIPICHE, SUGGESTIVE INQUADRATURE DI BAZAR E MOSCHEE, CORTILI E FONTANE, DALLA SALDA IMPAGINAZIONE NELLA PENNELLATA SPIGLIATA E GUIZZANTE, PREZIOSE NEI PARTICOLARI QUANTO EQUILIBRATA NELL'INSIEME...'. VIA DEL CAIRO HAS THE DELICATE, SOPHISTICATED TONES OF PASINI'S LATER VIEWS OF VENICE, WHERE THE MAUVE NUANCES OF THE LIGHT TRANSLATE THE SUBTLE MELANCHOLY OF THE MAGICAL CITYSCAPE.
ALBERTO PASINI IS INDEED THE MOST CELEBRATED AMONG ITALIAN ORIENTALISTS. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 1850S HE LEFT ITALY FOR PARIS WHERE HE MET THE ARTIST THéDORE CHASSéRIAU, AND, THROUGH HIM, THE DIPLOMAT PROSPER BOURéE, WHO WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE ON AN OFFICIAL MISSION TO PERSIA. PASINI WAS INVITED TO ACCOMPANY BOURéE AS HIS PERSONAL PAINTER AND, IN MARCH 1855, STARTED HIS LONG TRIP TO THE ORIENT, WHICH WAS TO LAST A YEAR AND A HALF. IN THE COURSE OF THIS ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY, THE ARTIST VISITED EGYPT, SAUDI ARABIA, SOUTH YEMEN AND THE PERSIAN GULF, AND WAS COMMISSIONED BY THE SHAH OF PERSIA TO EXECUTE NUMEROUS PAINTINGS. PASINI RETURNED TO FRANCE IN 1856, VIA THE BLACK SEA AND CONSTANTINOPLE. ONCE BACK IN PARIS, HE BEGAN TO PAINT, DEVELOPING THE FORMAL CONCEPTS AND THE CHROMATIC IDEAS OF THE HUNDREDS OF BOZZETTI HE HAD SCRUPULOUSLY GATHERED IN HIS TRAVELS.
VIA DEL CAIRO IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF PASINI'S STYLE OF THE EARLY 1860S. AS A. BABONI COMMENTS IN THE CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITION ALBERTO PASINI, DA PARMA A COSTANTINOPOLI VIA PARIGI (PARMA, 1996, P. 45): 'ED ECCO, DAGLI ANNI SESSANTA, DELINEARSI LE TIPICHE, SUGGESTIVE INQUADRATURE DI BAZAR E MOSCHEE, CORTILI E FONTANE, DALLA SALDA IMPAGINAZIONE NELLA PENNELLATA SPIGLIATA E GUIZZANTE, PREZIOSE NEI PARTICOLARI QUANTO EQUILIBRATA NELL'INSIEME...'. VIA DEL CAIRO HAS THE DELICATE, SOPHISTICATED TONES OF PASINI'S LATER VIEWS OF VENICE, WHERE THE MAUVE NUANCES OF THE LIGHT TRANSLATE THE SUBTLE MELANCHOLY OF THE MAGICAL CITYSCAPE.