Italian School (XX) - Roma '70

- Oil on spatula over canvas. Original canvas. Signed.

- Light up a Nazionali without filter and hurry that ristretto before it cools, because this is the true Rome of 1970, the one that doesn’t appear in the postcards of clueless tourists. Look at the canvas: Piazza Navona weighed down under a leaden, greasy sky, where the smoke from engines and centuries of soot have stained the façades a dark ochre, almost black, as if the very Baroque palaces were smoking two packs a day. Here the streets are not for strolling; they are a wild orchestra pit where the roar of Fiat 500s and Vespa motorcycles locked in perpetual combat drowns out the murmurs of the usual suspects. Along the sidewalks march gentlemen with sallow complexions and well-tatched tweed, quickening their steps with their coats flared to avoid getting muddy from the rain, crossing those stunning Italian women with jet-black hair, dark glasses even in the fog, and fur coats that take any mortal with blood in their veins’ breath away. It is the theater of historical engagement, the perfect blend of sacristy, leaded gasoline, political cynicism, and unbearable beauty; the painting does not capture a landscape, it captured the feverish pulse of an eternal city that consumes itself amid the smell of burnt coffee, the threat of a bombing, and the eternal promise of a sunset romance.

- Image dimensions without frame: 71 x 50 cm / 86 x 65 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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