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Concierge (Concierge)
Self-portrait
Self-portrait
Vallon to Volpedo
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
Portrait of Armando Mazza
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The bridge

Giuseppe Pelizza da Volpedo

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Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

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The work is preceded by a sketch in which some figures of unskilled workers distributed on the proscenium, anonymous dark masses bent on heavy wheelbarrows, give life to a further homage to the epic of workers in accordance with the theme of The Fourth Estate. Over time the bridge undergoes a radical metamorphosis whereby the eloquent social message is replaced by a more subtle symbolic content. A canvas of considerable size, the composition is centered on the solid linear structure of the bridge and on the curvature of them that intersects it in the center formed by the bed of the stream, on the ground, and by the trajectory of the cloud, in the sky, located in the median plane to the right, the three silhouettes against the light of a man prone on the water to quench his thirst and of a woman with a child in her arms, a little further on a shepherd who goes away with the small flock just visible in the half-light. All around, nothingness: only the silent peace of the evening that falls slowly and inevitably. After the unenthusiastic reception of the painting at the 1905 Venice Biennale, Pellizza undertook a real general revision, defining, among other elements, a more prominent profile of the mountain range in the background, a tribute to the themes and ways of Giovanni Segantini.
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Title: The bridge

Author: Giuseppe Pelizza da Volpedo

Date: 1904 - 1906

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

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