Among latest acquisitions, Ottocento Art Gallery offers a masterpiece by Trieste painter Bruno Croatto ( 1875 –1948 ) which embodied his passion for Oriental culture and his symbols. The quality of light and the extraordinary definition of the details are the most surprising aspects of the still lives produced by Croatto in the 1920s and 1930s. Criticism has highlighted his “verism”, the point of arrival of a gradual evolution, meditated through frequent travel and the study of Italian Renaissance painting, which led him to “a sort of modern pictorial classicism” (Firmiani, 1976). The clarity of the sign, the sharpness of the colors, the plastic force of the objects induces the Triestine master to express pure naturalism, a meticulous attention to the real figure. The sense of finitude, vivid in the bodily evidence of brilliant, almost enamelled figures, characterizes the last works and shows an artistic ev
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