Born and raised in Val D’Intelvi, Baldassare Longoni instills in his painting an authentic love for all the wonders of creation and for the serene family life, of which he becomes a refined and passionate cantor of uncommon sensitivity. Caryatids, a splendid oil with refined and very light atmospheres, elaborated in dense weaves of thin shattered brushstrokes, is the cornerstone of Longonian production, and is part of it as one of the highest and most significant results, a canvas of eloquent simplicity in which the reasons of nature and of man happily come together in a total and convincing harmony, capable of concealing under the guise of a sort of mythical Arcadian vision the uncomfortable reality of the increasingly harsh conditions of workers, with particular attention to the question of female work. The tenuous landscape, supported by a safe chromatic decomposition, softens the story of the silent fatigue of barefoot and faceless women, conducted under the banner of that social and political commitment inherent in the poetics of Divisionism from the very beginning.