Portrait of Teresa Madinelli

The painting portrays Teresa Madinelli who, together with her husband Antonio Veronesi, was among the most lively and modern collectors of the Verona of the 1910s. The painting is considered the artist’s farewell work from Verona, a city he left to move with his family to Turin in 1918, following the death of his suicidal father. The woman is depicted sitting elegantly with hands folded, in the center of an interior in which stands out the geometric pattern of the checkerboard floor, whose representation deviates from the loggias of perspective. Madinelli’s portrait reflects the close relations between the Piedmontese and the Scaliger context, and in particular with Angelo Zamboni, who in the elegant "Portrait of Ada Bertoldi" shares with the colleague the choice of presenting the subject dressed in black against a flat gray background, in an austere pose that prefigures a new phase of revisiting classicism, now close to merging into the wider atmosphere of return to the order of "Magic realism"