Crescenzio Onofri

In this period he is known to have collaborated with various artists who painted the figures in his landscapes, including Livio Mehus, Francesco Petrucci and Alessandro Magnasco.

Typical of Onofrio's work are his carefully balanced compositions, which go back on the model of the classical landscape established in the early 17th century by Annibale Carracci and his pupils and in which the narrative element is reduced.

[2] The so-called 'ideal' landscape of the first half of the 17th century had in fact created compositional formulas that served as a model for numerous Italian and foreign artists.

This style of classical landscape had an extraordinary development in the 17th and 18th centuries as is illustrated by the works of Dughet and Jan Frans van Bloemen.

[4] The numerous drawings by his hand demonstrate that Onofri was familiar with the works of the Bolognese artist Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi particularly in his meticulous technique of representing the foliage of trees.