Ferrara

A wide panorama stretches across the canvas, looking over the rooftops of an Italian town toward a skyline of domes and a tall square tower. A narrow band of warm sunset light glows along the horizon beneath a heavy bank of dramatic, rolling clouds that fill most of the sky.

Loose, energetic strokes build the turbulent grey and mauve clouds, while the thin strip of orange and gold along the horizon is the painting's only strong warmth, echoed faintly in the lit windows of the town below. The dark architectural silhouettes are painted with quick, decisive touches, giving the scene a dramatic, theatrical sense of scale and weather.