Love too much

The painting depicts an elderly woman following a little girl as she repeats her lesson in a bourgeois interior. Through the depiction of the environment, the gestures and expressions of the figures, Lega manages to evoke psychological subtleties and universal feelings.

The feeling of love emerges with extraordinary sensitivity in the grandmother's caring, affectionate gestures to her granddaughter. An artist of rare emotional intensity, Lega makes the feelings of affection vibrate together with the subterranean vitality of the psyche.

Angelo Dall'Oca Bianca is one of the most singular interpreters of passionate love, as shown in his work "Shooting Stars" (1913). The painting expresses the spontaneity of the emotions and the moods that the lovers go through before their act of love.

In the painting, the enveloping nocturnal landscape leads to a dreamy suspension and sublimates the passion which, as it subsides, gives way to sweet effusions, the languid exchange of kisses and the intense embrace between the two lovers.

Baldassare Longoni's "The Flowering Peach Tree" from 1914 demonstrates his love of nature by depicting the fruit tree at the height of its splendour. In this painting, Longoni transfers the Divisionism lesson into his landscape painting, interpreted in his own personal view.

The wonder of nature is expressed by the artist through the harmonious use of colours, applied with delicate touches, thus restoring an intense natural light and capturing the essence of nature's rebirth.

In 1989, Carlo Maria Mariani painted "Pictor Arte Insignis", an allegorical representation, freely inspired by mythology, of love for art. His painting is inspired by the ideal form of the neoclassical beauty.

The painting is a reflection on the painter's love affair with artistic creation, sublimated by the cultured quotationism of the representation. The conceptual idea behind Mariani's artistic activity is "the painter as art historian".

The series "Heart and Cylinder" (c. 1970) by Eugenio Degani intends to symbolically represent, in abstract terms, every form of love expressed in the universe.

The series of heart-shaped images bears witness to the artist's multifaceted experimentation with plastic materials and their industrial derivatives, started in the late 1960s.