Moroni (hand-painted by Silvia Barbieri) - Landscape

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, 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. In Moroni's cityscapes, as in the present work, the everyday aspect prevails, the frank and sincere realism of everyday life in a city setting.

Moroni's style presents a perfect fusion of realism and a delicate, impressionistic rendering of sensory details. On the one hand, the artist precisely depicts the cityscape in all its details, with a strong sense of reality and a thorough desire to capture sensory information. On the other, his refined engraving technique allows him to convey a sense of immediacy to the plate, thanks to a rapid stroke, charged with atmospheric vibrations. Light thus reverberates on the objects, but without interfering with the precise depiction of reality. The entire scene is thus characterized by a clear luminosity that is revealed, by contrast, in the play of shadows. Silvia Barbieri's pictorial intervention, with a palette of soft and delicate colors, also serves this purpose.

Moroni, the artist behind this engraving, stands out for his simple and direct style, which embodies a genuinely realistic conception of artistic creation. In his work, sensory data is not idealized but rather reproduced as it is in reality. For this reason, his figurative language draws on life-like reproduction but is distinguished by a certain impressionistic approach that brings a lively and immediate quality to the representation.

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