Venice, Riva degli Schiavoni with San Marco Column – In the Manner of Canalettp – Oil on canvas

The painting by Giancarlo Gorini inspired by the canvas of the great Venetian painter Canaletto is a mysterious magic: you can almost feel the degree of humidity and the slow air movement. Here lies the secret of Gorini who manages to restore the sense of reality by simplifying the brush mark. The water is in fact made with small brushstrokes, just as the shadows of the stones of the quay are simple and essential. We see a group of people talking to each other, children and fishermen, the eighteenth-century robes are all pastel or gray-brown, even the gondolas are all strictly black.