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Rosso Fiorentino

Part of Mediterranean Icons, this work pays homage to Rosso Fiorentino through an expressionist reimagining of his dramatic colour and elongated forms. At the centre, a solitary figure in vibrant red appears suspended between movement and stillness. Surrounding compartments contain faces, silhouettes, and spectral fragments that seem to return to the central presence as witnesses, memories, or remnants of another age. Warm fields of gold and umber retain something of Rosso’s emotional intensity while transforming it into a more inward, contemporary vision. The figures carry a sense of identity in flux, poised between revelation and disappearance. Rather than quoting the past, Ambrosino lets it surface as an afterimage: classical form unsettled, beauty made uneasy, history broken into fragments and reassembled through a distinctly contemporary sensibility.