Bucolic view of the Sicilian countryside. A Sicilian family rests on a meadow together with their animals, with a smoking snow-capped Mount Etna in the background. Author: Erminio Kremp (1860-1936) Year: XIX-XX Size: cm L 1126 x H 66 without Tecnica: Oil on canvas
This work is fully integrated into the production of Erminio Kremp, a painter of German origin who relocated to Palermo, and whose artistic career remained deeply influenced by Sicilian landscape painting. In the painting in question, the compositional focus is Mount Etna, captured from the Taormina viewpoint. The perspective layout is structured around a balanced alternation of planes: the olive…