That which Maria Cristina Baracchi emphasizes about oil portrait in many of his writings, is that it does not have to result a giant of depiction, it must not to represent a "moment of life", but rather represent the soul and the temperament of the person portrayed, his life experience condensed into a canvas and when the frame allows it, she tries to make the moving glance so that it can interact with the observer.
(...) Not so much test of skill, therefore, the portrait, but rather mean of penetration to capture those elements which emerge as a mysterious backdrop, a "beyond the canvas" that is accessible to the attentive observer and able to establish a long tuning, not momentary and superficial, with the work of art. (Prof. Walter Boni)
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