Giuseppe Rigon - View of the Church of San Cristoforo and the Milan Canal under the snow

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and Modern Ages, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It's worth remembering that immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings. Most of Giuseppe Rigon's paintings are dedicated to the city of Milan. His favorite subjects are evocative views of the cathedral or views of the canals.

The painting was created with a remarkable post-Impressionist technique. The artist uses rapid, synthetic brushstrokes to quickly delineate shapes and volumes. This allows him to capture, with every single brushstroke, the effects of light and atmosphere on objects, and to instantly convey a cityscape with precise weather and environmental conditions. The entire color palette, from the canal to the sky, is precisely matched to the atmospheric conditions being depicted. As with the Impressionists, the perspective grid is not eliminated; spatial depth is determined exclusively through color shading. The highly synthetic and dynamic brushstrokes are intended to convey the artist's emotional perception, rather than a precise rendering of sensory data. All this adds a great deal of lyricism to the depiction of the Milanese landscape.

Giuseppe Rigon (Villaverla, 1929), after studying at the Brera Academy and the Academy of Venice, was part of the group of set designers at La Scala in Milan from 1956 to 1989, with several collaborations also in the 2000s. He exhibited both in Italy and abroad. His solo exhibition in Milan in 1964, inaugurated by Carlo Carrà, is worth mentioning. In addition to painting and set designs for La Scala and for theaters in Florence and Verona, he designed posters for theatrical performances.

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