Il Tevere da via Ripetta

The view of the Tiber from via Ripetta is constructed on perspective flight that plunges from a balcony towards the river, in a series of swirls of volumes formed by the houses giving onto a horizon that coincides with the limits of the city. Warm swaths, offered by the sun, contrast with the dull green of the trees lining the Tiber.
The painting is dated 1915, when the experience of Ferrazzi’s trip to Paris in 1912 had yielded its full fruit: from the relationship between light and colour to the lesson of Cubism, which, though re-articulated in the spirit of figurative evidence, nonetheless makes its presence felt in the strong plastic aggregation of the volumes.