Luca Venturi (XX-XXI) - Controluce

Female figure in profile, depicted at the edge of a mirror-like body of water while she lifts her hair with a natural and relaxed gesture, the light drapery tied at the waist recalling the classical iconography of the bather or Venus emerging from the waters. The arched framing, framed by a golden-yellow sky, isolates the figure as if in a painter’s niche, while the hill landscape in the background and the reflections on the water anchor the scene to a real and luminous place. The composition, of academic and figurative taste, plays on the contrast between the stillness of the pose and the softness of the light, in a balance between portraiture tradition and discreet sensuality.