Venetian Mask Ivory and Copper Painting with Venetian Domes - Piercing Gray Eyes - Venice Mask Edition

The visual

The painting depicts a face covered with a Venetian carnival mask, with finely sculpted floral and vegetal motifs. The dominant palette blendspearlescent ivory , warm copper and touches of pastel blue reminiscent of the canals of Venice in the background. The eyes, the only realistic elements, pierce the composition with an intense blue-grey gaze. The texture evokes a bas-relief work, almost like lace or cracked porcelain. Venetian architectures gently dissolve in the background, in an ochre and silver-grey gradation. The light, soft and diffused, highlights each golden volute without creating harsh shadows. The whole composes a work that is both baroque and dreamlike, where ornamental detail takes precedence over any other figurative reading.