Painting description

The painting is dominated by dense yellow and ochre, from which a soft glow seeps through. In the center, a slender figure in cool blue hovers, holding a cross, and behind it a crescent moon like a luminous halo. The composition is vertical and focused, and at the bottom a golden patch of the city shimmers, with dark clumps of trees. There is silence and pathos here, a faint apocalyptic shiver. It looks like a large angel holding a cross, glowing. The brushstrokes are soft as mist, in places a thick impasto, the light diffused in sfumato. A romantic-symbolic style, a bit dreamlike, seemingly simple yet painterly rich. I feel respect and a slight tension—wow—as if someone were watching from above. It can be read as guardianship over the city or an ominous prophecy, and let everyone choose their own path.