The work belongs to the series called "Idilli", a cycle of paintings on the sentiment of love in the course of human existence, which Pellizza conceived in 1897 and began to develop in 1898, in connection with the relationships with writers of the "Marzocco" and especially with Domenico Tumiati (who perhaps suggested the title) and with the moment of greater attention to the "primitives" of the fifteenth century. The artist worked on the idylls in alternating phases, intensely in 1900-1901 and in 1903, a period to which Prato fiorito should belong, and with a revival in 1905. the square arched at the top and the round) in order to obtain unifying correspondences. Prato fiorito was the first of the sequence, which continued with Passeggiata amorosa, with the flamingly colored tondo in the center; Love in life and ended with the dark paintings The black gate and The old woman in the stable (Pellizza da Volpedo 1980, p. 95). The two rounds Girotondo and Passeggiata amorosa, November, April in the meadows of Volpedo, Sogno a due also belong to the series of Idylls. In 1907 the work was included in the inventory of the artist's studio (No. 309).
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