Calf

The Abruzzi master often depicted the first uncertain steps of young calves, not only because they were specimens of the rural world, in which he lived during his short childhood (interrupted at only fourteen years to move to Rome and work as an apprentice at the restoration laboratory of the Vatican Museums), but above all as expression of the will to find a fleeting balance in the fragile age in which one passes to adult life.
In fact, the young calf is taken in the act of taking the first steps: the tension of the neck and the legs apart in an attempt to cling more to the ground describe the experimentation, full of energy, to bend their limbs to learn to move in space, with the grace of spontaneity.