“Light  and shade glide over forms, creating glistening highlights, soft transitions of grey, and pockets of velvety shadow. The lines that define the distant landscape flicker in a light-saturated atmosphere.” Richard Wallace 

The Death in this print has the elegance of a Diva and She moves forward majestically. She looks like an apocalyptic rider but she doesn’t strike fear into our heart. Such a beautiful Della Bella printed work!

The present print is an intimate charming image after a Parmigianino’s  drawing of the Gini collection. Here we can use the term “painter’s etching”. The extensive use of aquatint produces fine tonal gradations and create the peculiar charm of this striking work.

There is a recurrent theme in Marino Marini’s works: it’s the theme of the horse. This lithograph is a very simple composition that is free of any descriptive detail. Here we can only see the essential mythical quality of the Asian and of the primitive statuary. 

“It would be correct to regard this as a Crucifixion, a theme with an explicit allusion to the horrors of the war. The victim outstretched arms are raised before a naked, potbellied executioner wearing the classic German helmet.” Mario de Micheli

What do we have to say about Livio Ceschin etched works? His ability in printmaking and his technical mastery is demonstrated. We love the sound of silence and the quiet of the countryside or the melancholy of a beach in winter that we can see, synaestheticaly, in these etchings from the Veneto…. land that we love.