In Arcangeli’s interpretation, the Portrait of the Tacconi Family stands out as “a masterpiece of sentiments that are modest to the point of anonymity, showing a life captured in its calmest form of existence...”.

 “... It still has the sentiment of Ludovico’s early years, a sense of the everyday, the domestic, with no hint of rhetoric. These characters, who do not ‘pose’ but look out almost distractedly from the canvas in their most unselfconscious natural authenticity, are painted simply, almost sparsely; because a greater richness in the painting would jar with the sense of this anonymous everyday life”.