Ettore Ceruti
"I believe one could not better define Marchetti's pictorial work than as a stupendous journey through the infinite worlds of the spirit. He always succeeds in giving us, in a well-balanced and harmonious spatiality, a depth of feeling which, in light tones, warm and vibrant, bent on evoking his subjects within an aura of pure poetry, is expressed lovingly and, we might say, religiously. What strikes one in him is the vigour of ideas that imposes itself upon the senses and clothes the phantoms of imagination in the concrete; evident, too, is the continuous effort to impoverish and pare down the colour, with the sure aim of asserting the construction and the offering of an infinity of feelings and of splendours of beauty, which from the eyes descends into the soul, chastening every temptation of effect and of chromatic excess. His painting is born, therefore, of a travail, of a yearning towards an absolute purity..."
Ettore Ceruti - art historian
English translation produced with the aid of artificial intelligence. The authoritative text is the Italian original.