View of the Ardenza in Livorno, Paulo Ghiglia

Landscape view depicting the Ardenza neighborhood in Livorno, characterized by a horizontal setting that enhances perspective depth. In the foreground is a waterway framed by grassy embankments, leading the eye toward the built-up area in the center of the composition. The buildings, rendered with compact brushstrokes and colors calibrated between ochre, red and pink, are silhouetted against a clear blue-tinted sky, with an isolated bell tower in the background serving as the dominant vertical element. The work presents a textural and layered pictorial layering, with a decisive stroke devoid of descriptive excesses, typical of 20th-century Tuscan painting. Perspective is constructed through the superimposition of chromatic planes, while the overall atmosphere renders a scene of urban quiet immersed in a rural setting. The gilded wooden frame, of carved taste, is coeval or close to the period of execution. Dimensions of the painting: 62 x 28.5xm Dimensions with frame: 85.5 x 52cm