Pienza from Dionora's Vineyards

JOSEPH BURROUGH

"Pienza from Dionora's Vineyards"
Oil on Canvas
24" X 24"
SOLD

This was a commissioned painting done in the studio recently from the client's digital pic. I remembered painting one of my plein air paintings just outside of Pienza, so I zoomed in on his pic, and out in the distance 4-5 miles just below the hill town of Pienza, I could make out the familiar landmarks of the exact spot where I painted "Misty Mountain Vineyard"!

If you look below the steeple just right of the center of the painting, you'll see a distant bluish-band of trees below town, then at the bottom edge of those trees a farm house and a vineyard patch below that -- I painted "Misty Mountain Vineyard" along the bottom, horizontal edge of that vineyard (i.e., facing to the left in this painting). There were 4, 5 or 6 solitary olive trees on my left as I stood there, then a field to the left of that, which is the distant dirt field below the vineyard. When I enlarged his photo, I could clearly see the small dots which are those olive trees!