Asian Janus. Oil on canvas 2018. 54x 73 cm

This painting is part of an artistic series dedicated to the Janus theme. Janus is a deity of ancient Rome. Giano in the Archaic era was simply the god linked to the natural cycles, then with the passage of time his myth became more and more complex.

"However, Rossati evokes also the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome. From these myths, so close to our sensitivity, the figures of the double-faced Janus are brought forth; they are, however, female ancestral figures of idols, whose pictorial matter reaches its quivering animation, which is just the supreme symbol of Eros, the myth of all myths." Claudio Strinati