The painting depicts a city square that has just experienced rain. The air is thick, saturated with fog – it spreads along the ground, envelops the buildings and blurs the outlines of the streets, as if dissolving the city in a translucent haze.
Above this mysterious, almost ghostly landscape, the dome of the cathedral rises majestically – it pierces the fog, as if hovering above the city. Its outlines are clearer than the others, and it seems almost unreal, like a memory or a dream.
In the foreground – a couple of lovers, sheltered under one umbrella. They walk slowly, almost without talking, absorbed in each other. Their figures are reflected in the wet pavement, and it seems that this reflected world lives its own life. Everything around – sounds, movement, even the rain – seems to have lain dormant, giving way to their solitary moment.
