The Fortune Teller

Compared with Morlaiter, Bonazza's pictorialism, perhaps not very refined or precious, is nevertheless deeper, more atmospheric, rich in tonal values; enriched, with respect to the Venetian tradition, by a sharper sense of realism, by an adherence to existential aspects that goes beyond the typological conventionality both of the classicists and of the Rococo masters. This new and revolutionary contribution found its most singular expression in the statues of the park of the Widmann family (friends, be it noted, of Goldoni...): an exceptional gathering of characters conversing with one another, soldiers, hunters, peasants, women, quarrelsome old men, presented with a humble, good-natured wit, with a fragrance made of naturalness and truth that seems an ante litteram transcription of bourgeois theatre.