Paesaggio di Ciociaria

This landscape of southern Lazio, done in 1934 and thus in the central years Trombadori’s career, shows a composition founded upon the sharp contrast between the dark, dense vegetation clinging to a ridge of rock on the left and the town stretching up the hillside on the right. Between these two formal end-pieces, the valley is a sort of cut upon which a curving road disappears behind the ridge. The artist is particularly careful, though without contradicting the ideas he shared with Donghi, to represent the theme of the forceful presence of volumes, harking back to Cézanne. And in fact Trombadori projects the teachings of Cézanne onto a horizon marked by the concept of rediscovery, beyond time, of the compositional equilibrium of 15th-century classicism.