A curation by Flavio Scaloni, Gallery Manager at Galerie Lo Scalo - Here we present a selection of contemporary artworks, most of which are inspired by a revival of classical style and the tradition of academic painting, and their updated reinterpretation. However, this collection actually focuses on the representation of literary and mythological subjects, which, taken together, constituted the principal repertoire of Symbolist painting nearly a century and a half ago, the movement that arose in France, especially Paris, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Influenced in many ways by the dramatic and highly evocative works of Swiss painter Arnold Bocklin and German painter Max Klinger, and in open opposition to the so-called objective and naturalistic representation of the visible world, Symbolism aimed instead to illustrate the most intense states of mind and to plumb the depths of the psyche, drawing to this end on classical literary sources and, more specifically, allegories, figures, and episodes drawn from ancient Greek mythology. Often immersed in otherworldly settings, or in the presence of some mystical apparition, the characters depicted in these pictorial cycles convey a sense of the magical, the numinous and the otherworldly, today as then.