Abbazia di Saint Germaine de Pres

The personality of Camille Corot, to whom this work is attributed, decisively influenced not only nineteenth-century French art but the overall development of European figurative culture, placing itself in fact as a brilliant precursor of the Impressionists. His landscape painting is rightly famous for the sublime touch in the details, for the play of color tones, for the effective care of every detail, and especially for the rendering of light, which in each case is pervasive and strong. This view of the Abbey of Saint-Germain, then placed in the still green outskirt of the capital, translates into a decidedly romantic impact, sublimating itself in the foliage of the trees. They seem to graze the medieval masonry, placing themselves as an ornament and exaltation of the stones under a magnificent, almost vernal sky. Corot's paintings are full of things, for he never gives up using his synthetic talent to illustrate reality. Thus, he is indeed the happy trailblazer of modern art that would soon flourish in Paris. Its sublime intelligence emerges from every area of this table, which can therefore be truly associated with its intense production.