Film Commission Torino Piemonte

Pelizza da Volpedo is a great artist, one of the greatest modern italian painters, but who today needs to be discovered and valued again. His most famous painting, "The Fourth Estate" still makes people talk about it today and remains one of the most important and famous iconographies of our contemporary.

At the same time, the huge force of the painting and its universal message, on the one hand, and the fact that many of his most important paintings have not been seen in public for decades on the other, means that Pellizza's perception of art has been limited to this work only. Even on the internet it is difficult to find a good reproduction of this paintings belonging to private collections; a serious shortcoming since they are absolute masterpieces where the pictorial expression makes a wonderful synthesis between classical technique and a decidedly poetic and modern expression and gaze. His representations of fleeting but intense moments of human life still enchant the viewer. Making a documentary today about Pellizza da Volpedo, which reveals the greatness of his art unknown to most, becomes fundamental and contemporary.