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January in Padua
In Fiumelatte from the railway underpass
Vibrant
The blue vase
The candle
The long wait
Medieval motif
Drawings for a fresco. Mary Magdalene at the foot of the cross
The woman of the emigrant
Idyll. The tree of Life
Portrait of Giovanni Cantù
Study of figures for spring idyll
May morning
The bridge
Portrait of peasants (Portrait of Signora Battegazzore)
Portrait of a peasant owner
Will be
The exit of the workers from the Pirelli factory
Night work at Termini Station
Piazza Caricamento in Genoa
Reflections of a hungry. Study
Strike
Ona city street
Tears
Painful reflections
To the Italian economic kitchens
I remember when I was a girl
The search for light. Study for central triptych image
Caryatids
Harvesting hay
The sower
Morning in the workshop
Going to the factory
Solitude
The sun
Hail Mary in transit
Robbery
Believers
Return from the alp
Maize on the farmyard
On the Ligurian coast (Sulla costa ligure)
Curious old women
San Martino d'Albaro
Maternal love
April morning
April sun
Midday in Manarola
The disk of the sun
Summer. Morning
Landscape. Study
Rainy day
Spring in Val Sassina
Viaticum
The melancholy of the sun
Pasture
The gray village
Landscape
The abandoned cart
Maternity
Adoration of the Magi
The way to Calvary
Penumbra
Suburb
Morning
Autumn afternoon
Morning
Figure of a Woman (Portrait of Violette)
The nostalgic hour on Mé-Nam
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House under construction

The search for light. Study for central triptych image

Angelo Morbelli

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The two small oil tablets, made from cigar boxes, as attested by the original stamp and labels on the back of both, and assembled like a diptych through the sober wooden frame that bears the engraving in capital letters The search for light by Angelo Morbelli , are sketches for the central image of the triptych Sogno e Realtà, which today works in the collections of the Cariplo Foundation in Milan. Conceived in the form of a triptych, Dream and Reality, also known as Il Sogno or La Vita, consists of a rectangular support closed between two of similar shape but with an arched profile drawn at the top. In the side canvases, in a ghostly light, a man and a woman of advanced age face each other, bent by a deep sleep, in the central canvas (of which our two sketches), like an apparition emanating from the sleepers, two lovers of their backs are encircled in a romantic embrace in the presence of the immense nothingness, near a parapet that borders on the adjacent squares, connecting the three moments, to re-tie an impossible space-time continuity.
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Title: The search for light. Study for central triptych image

Author: Angelo Morbelli

Date: 1905

Technique: Diptych, mixed media on tablet

Displayed in: Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

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