Original artwork description:

This painting is a study on the masterpiece "Una visita schernita" by Alberto Maso Gilli realised in 1869. It has been created for the 4th year painting class at the Academy of Fine Arts of Turin.
The original painting is an oil on canvas measuring 115 x 155 cm which aroused my interest because of the colors, the architecture, the strong contrast between the characters and the background, but above all for the unreal nature, almost carnivalesque and absurd, of the scene which is represented there. Central is a group of various humanity in dim light - soldiers, a monk, a dog on a leash, a merchant - to which the figures of two masked men also belong, as if they were jesters or acrobats, in full light. All these characters mock a woman in a corner who has come together with her little daughter under the grates of the building where her man is locked up. The scene takes place in a sixteenth-century vertical foreshortened environment of great visual impact.

Painted sides, final varnish. There are fine pen lines near the edges, used to attach the canvas to the frame.
Signed certificate of authenticity.

Materials used:

Oil colors

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