Apparition
A town on Mount Amiata, perched on a height dominating the vastness of the Maremman plain, is seen as a perfect interlock of geometric solids harmonizing with each other in shape and colour. The rationality of the design evokes the balance of an ideal world, paradigmatic and absolute in its
Pine Tree at Baratti
A solitary pine tree, gnarled and partly withered, seems to resist the assault of the winds and summer heat in a strenuous attempt to survive. The artist uses elements of nature described in their lifelike characteristics to convey his personal emotions and meditations in the vein of Leopardi.
The Wounded Cypress
The theme of a tree violently struck by lightning, still alive despite the mutilation, becomes an emblem of human life, often mortally wounded but not annihilated. The use of black and white together with the technique of engraving lends a special sense of drama to the realistic image.
Wounded Cypress with the Moon
A pale moon sheds its cold light on a mutilated cypress tree, isolated in a flat countryside. The colours and features of the landscape of Maremma are here interpreted by the artist with an affection for nature that echoes the pantheism of the poetics of Romanticism.
Maremma Sky
A master of the various techniques of engraving, Ceccotti stirring gradations of black and white to create grandiose visions of high, wide skies over low horizons, traversed by ever-changing clouds, threatening or benevolent, pushed by strong winds like the ones that blow across the bay of Populonia, one of his
Lightning Offshore Illuminating Cerboli
The painter approaches the poetry of the “terrible” dear to the Romantics in this presentation of a violent spectacle of nature, frightening and intriguing at the same time. The thick black clouds over a sea that is also dark are split by a zigzag line of light appearing like a
The Ombrone at Monte Antico
Granchi’s beloved theme of a riverscape here produces a balanced, harmonious vision echoing the poetic lesson of Corot. The Ombrone River was dear to Granchi ever since the 1930s when, with his colleagues from the Superintendence in Florence he would fish there in long hours of silence and concentration. These
Arcidosso Castle at Sunset
The reddish-orange glow lighting up the sky reverberates on the landscape of Mount Amiata and wraps the severe structure of the castle high on the hill in a warm atmosphere. As in many other pictures painted from life on summer days, the artist expresses his affectionate observation of nature’s spectacles,
Along the Ente. The Bridge below Montegiovi
River scenes were among the painter’s favourites; he loved the rapid rush of mountain streams past big rocks and cool shady banks. Here the painting also assumes historical and documentary value, since vegetation has now overtaken the structure, after it had already been robbed of stones and other reusable material.
Lights and Shadows among the Chestnut Trees (Amiata)
The summer light filters through the thick leaves of chestnut trees shading the slope. The variation of greens creates a cool atmosphere in which the painter’s wife and little son move as though dancing, their presence making the artist’s happiness complete.
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