Paesaggio fiorentino

To the right we see a stone wall, bending sinuously towards the background, where it appears suddenly to block a dense cluster of buildings, behind which a bell tower and church dome are visible. To the left, a tree twists, as if in response to the torsion of the wall facing it. Dated 1928, this painting comes from the period when Paresce’s primitivist realism was tinged with the memory of metaphysical painting. Behind the volumes aggregated in cubist style, there is an evident reference to the 14th-century post-Giotto painting that, in fact, had attracted De Chirico in Florence on his way through to Paris.