Paesaggio laziale

This Lazio landscape, dated 1935, is ruled by a classical, orderly, simple composition, in which from the foreground the road seems to move slowly away towards the background, almost entirely shut off by trees. As in the work of his friend and fellow artist Antonio Donghi, we find the theme of silence and stillness, the absence of all active human presence. However, the theme is developed less impassively, with a slight tonalist vibration of colour within the light. Another of Trombadori’s fully mature works, this landscape represents the particular expressive solution that characterized his entire opus: his long-sought reconciliation of modern art, which he appreciated above all in the period running from the Impressionists to Cézanne, with the desire for a sort of classical stability of image. The idea was to salvage art from what Trombadori saw, in modern and contemporary trends, as precarious, ephemeral. Hence his rejection of the boldest experimentation with new forms in favour of a pacified cultural balance.