

Curatorial Narrative Filippo Morghen’s “A Pumpkin Used as a Fishing Boat” (1769) occupies an intriguing position within the Baroque tradition. Executed in black and white, the linear brushwork employed by Morghen imbues the composition with a sense of crispness and visual clarity. The subject itself, a humble pumpkin transformed into a makeshift vessel, appears to float on a void, suspended between two planes of existence. This dichotomy is underscored by the artist’s deliberate eschewal of chiaroscuro in favor of an unrelenting chiaroscurismo, which imbues the image with a sense of weightlessness and atmospheric ambiguity.Enlarged to 58×44 inches, Morghen’s composition assumes a commanding presence within a luxury interior environment. The stark chromatic structure, predicated on the oppositional forces of black and white, exerts a profound influence upon the surrounding spatial rhythm. In conjunction with a judicious selection of
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