My Window in Florence

In "My Window in Florence", Emilio Pettoruti reinterpreted iconographies of the classical tradition through the new visual fragmentation procedures of Cubism. The still life of the scene is constructed through different visual perspectives on the objects: some, like the glass and the bottle, represented in an illusionistic way; others cut out against the neutral background, the shadows indicated by the more or less dense strokes of the drawing. The view through a window allows the plane to be perforated and the gaze to escape towards an urban landscape on the horizon, but the frame that opens onto this view is deformed and turned diagonally, even if its thickness simulates a certain depth. The viewer's perception is trapped in the visual ambiguity generated by a representation that is only partly illusionist.