An essay on the work of one of the leading figures of contemporary art, but also on art’s capacity to release a trans-historical impulse that transcends temporal contingencies and aims at the eye of the cyclone. Nicola Samorì stands out as one of the most significant talents in the contemporary artistic landscape, extending well beyond national boundaries. For years, the core of his artistic research has been an intense dialogue with the great masters of painting of the past—especially, though not exclusively, those of the Baroque period. This dialogue is pursued not through anachronistic quotations or superficial stylistic hybridizations, but through a direct and dramatic confrontation with that visual legacy.