The plaster on the wall gleams white in the sun, which throws sharp shadows onto the path. The composition curiously recalls Giovanni Fattori’s painting In vendetta (“On Guard Duty,” also known as “The White Wall”), and the pronounced counterposition of the colours, spread onto the support with broad, thick, pasty

Drawn from life in the country around Manciano, the artist’s birthplace, this riverscape conveys the affectionate and attentive eye he had for his land. The initial precise, descriptive line is blurred to harmonize the tones and suggest the density of the damp air rising from the water

In this drawing Aldi demonstrates his considerable talent for suggesting with a few vibrant strokes the luminosity of the woods when the breath of spring pervades the bushes. Sketched from life, the landscape is one of a series of drawings made by the painter in notebooks of various sizes which

The painter here reworks ideas observed from life to construct his sketch of an historical scene that is hard to identify: the figures are wearing archaic dress while their postures suggest a forced distancing after an unfriendly exchange of words, in a melancholy, cold atmosphere.

This study of the open sea connects this little panel with the working out of the painting of The Funeral of Pompey the Great, presented by Aldi at the Esposizione Artistica in Turin in 1881 but current location unknown. We find in the finished painting a similar stretch of a

This especially luminous painting offers a serene contemplation of a corner of the coast used for fishing, but also set up for swimmers to rest. In the shade of a white awning are two female figures, described with a few quick brushstrokes by the artist who here plays the unusual