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Held in the Modern Art Gallery Sant'Anna, this undated canvas by Plinio Nomellini reflects the mature phase of an artist who became one of the most committed Italian Divisionists of his generation. Nomellini spent much of his later career in Liguria, particularly around the Gulf of Tigullio, where the dazzling Mediterranean light provided ideal subject matter for his chromatic experiments. His works from this period often fuse landscape and figure in compositions saturated with vibrating colour, moving beyond the social realism of his early career toward a more lyrical, almost visionary idiom. Nomellini was also closely associated with the Symbolist wing of Italian Divisionism, sharing with Segantini and Previati an interest in themes of renewal, maternity, and communion with nature. The Sant'Anna collection preserves several works by regional Italian masters whose reputations remained largely national rather than international, making this canvas an important document of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Italian painting outside the major metropolitan centres.

Nomellini's mature Divisionist method involves elongated, ribbon-like strokes that follow the contours of forms—a personal adaptation of the technique that gives his surfaces movement and rhythm. Colour is built through layering strokes of related hues rather than strict complementary dots, creating a shimmer that suggests Mediterranean light.