Oak Trees
The clouds thicken, threatening rain, above the bare oak trees, dressed for winter. The air is cold, only the light green of the grass evokes the rebirth of a warmer season, in a painted message of positive faith in the passage of time and the fruitful changes of season.
Woman Gathering Olives
The painter chose the watercolour technique to make this piece particularly luminous and light in colour, so as to render visible the harmony of existence and the balanced relationship between human beings and nature.
Wheat Field
After approaching social issues with a realistic eye, from 1930 Pascucci withdrew to Manciano, his birthplace, and devoted his efforts to landscape paintings, capturing the vital, luminous aspect of Maremma. He often portrayed peasants at work, not emphasizing their hard labour but rather their total immersion in the rhythms of
Countryside in Winter
The sawed-off tree trunk, in the middle of a clearing covered with frozen snow on a gray winter day, conveys the painter’s loneliness and his discouraged view of the future, which he intuited would be brief.
View towards Montalto from the Aldi House
A study of the sky and light effects that recalls examples by Valenciennes and Corot, reminding us of the importance for Aldi of his studies in Rome thanks to the Biringucci fellowship. That period introduced him to many artists at the Accademia di Francia, following the advice of his teacher
View from the Terrace of the Aldi House
From his home, the painter chose to block the view in the foreground by the house across from his, leaving space on the right for the vastness of the plain and the grandeur of the sky crossed by dark clouds heavy with rain. Aldi seems here to depict a metaphor
View of Mount Argentario and the Isola del Giglio
The unusual framing of the distant heights suggests the isolation and reclusion felt by Aldi during his frequent periods of convalescence spent in his ancestral home. From a window or the little terrace of the house, the young artist could see the jumbled alternation of land and sea, and paint
Road in Maremma (Capalbio)
In the 1870s Aldi had settled in Rome, but he was often forced to spend long periods in his native Manciano because of health issues. During one of these stays he appears to have made this life study, marked by shadowy, melancholy tones that mirror his personal psychological suffering.
Rocky Cliff
This luminous vision was successfully rendered by Aldi in the last years of his brief life. The massive, rugged rocks lie on top of each other like an Etruscan wall, evoking the archaic history of a fertile land protected by its friendship with the sea.
Hill with Olive Trees
Inglese. La pennellata dell’Aldi diventa quasi impressionistica in questo piccolo bozzetto dipinto velocemente dal vero sotto l’urgenza dell’emozione provata al risveglio primaverile dei campi. Opera tarda del pittore, si può avvicinare agli studi per il Nerone che contempla l’incendio di Roma, per la simile condotta pittorica a tocchi staccati e
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