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| 1980-2007: intellectual and spiritual
independence |
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In Rialto, 1987-88 |
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Comings and goings on the landing-stage…, 1987 |
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The Marys, 1991 |
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St. Mark's Basin, 2005 |
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| Majestic as the cedars…, 1980 |
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Ernani no longer worried about formal,
intellectual, cultural or stylistic issues. The painter faced
his work with the simple aim of painting well, correctly and pleasurably;
in the hope that people would understand the spiritual journey intrinsic
in his works.
The themes of his paintings were those which came to
mind from time to time or which he felt like committing to canvas;
in addition to those imposed by religious or private commissions.
During this period he devoted himself to the creation of large themed
cycles of paintings, with a strong spiritual element even when a religious
subject or conventional religious reference was not immediately apparent,
and these cycles were the subject of his exhibitions: Il cantico
dei cantici (The canticle of canticles), Da Eva a Maria - Le
Donne della Bibbia (From Eve to Mary - The women of the Bible), Veneto Cristiano
(Christian Veneto), Vivere a Venezia (Living in Venice)… |
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Dora Markus in Venice, 1996 |
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The pomegranates, 2001 |
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