Angelo Cignaroli
(Turin 1767 - 1841-42)
View of the Devil's Bridge
oil on canvas
cm 41 x 30
"Among the very few views by Angelo Cignaroli that do not feature a Piedmontese location is this unpublished canvas; unusual is the way the support was placed on the easel, not horizontally, but vertically. The purpose of the choice was almost certainly to give a greater upward momentum to the entire composition and thus to make the rugged mountains depicted even more monumental and majestic. The poetic backlight effect that characterizes the entire background of the scene makes visible, in the center, what is in effect the only element that manages - let's put it that way - to break in two this verticality, that is, the slender donkey-back bridge that connects the two opposite sides of a chasm, in the middle of which runs a very steep and impetuous waterfall."
- Museo di Arti Decorative Accorsi - Ometto, ANGELO CIGNAROLI, Views of the Kingdom of Sardinia, Silvana Editoriale, p. 218.
