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https://www.poloaldi.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/33_Vittorio_Granchi_Ombrone_a_Monte_Antico-1011x1024.png10111024Granchi’s beloved theme of a riverscape here produces a balanced, harmonious vision echoing the poetic lesson of Corot. The Ombrone River was dear to Granchi ever since the 1930s when, with his colleagues from the Superintendence in Florence he would fish there in long hours of silence and concentration. These happy memories seem to surface in the artist’s mind as he depicts the quiet and serenity of the site.