Helen Breger did this dramatic aquatint and etching around 1964. She depicts a piazza in Florence, Italy at night - with a brightly lighted plaza, surrounded by deep black shadows and a background of shadowed Renaissance buildings. Pedestrians are seen as tiny shadows in the distance or individually illuminated sculptures in the foreground.
Helen Breger exhibited her European works in 1965 at the Cellini Gallery in San Francisco. Her show was reviewed in Artforum in February, 1965. The reviewer commented about her exhibition, which included other works on paper.
"The very contrasty black and white aquatint etching is Mrs. Breger's métier. The drawings and acrylic washes that form almost half of this show might better have been left in the folio; they detract from the powerful prints..."