The Conception

Wildt possessed an astonishing skill in handling marble, which he smoothed and cleaned, making it fragile and porcelain-like, like a precious object, and reducing every luminous vibration to purely linear effects: by this means he “drew” his refined symbologies, at times pretentious, in which one seems to hear again the echo of the exasperated intellectualism of late-16th-century Mannerism.