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Giovanni Fattori's engravings on display at Bergamo airport

From July 17, 2024 to November 18, 2024,Orio al Serio Airport on the outskirts of Bergamo will host a new exhibition project created by theCarrara Academy in collaboration with Società per l'Aeroporto Civile di Bergamo-Orio al Serio (SACBO). T...
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Giovanni Fattori, the exhibition in Turin, among soldiers and Maremma landscapes

The fame of Giovanni Fattori (Leghorn, 1825 - Florence, 1908), a Leghorn artist with the rough character typical of the Tuscan Maremma, is mostly linked to those works that depict rural life, the peasant world of the butteri with their ever-p...
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Giovanni Fattori on display at GAM in Turin with more than 60 works

From October 14, 2021 to March 20, 2022, GAM in Turin is hosting an exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest artists in the history of Italian art, Giovanni Fattori (Livorno, 1825 - Florence, 1908). The exhibition is titled Fattori. Masterpieces a...
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Between wind, saltiness and thoughts. The Libecciata of Giovanni Fattori

Curzio Malaparte, in his Maledetti toscani, said that the libeccio is not a home wind. It is the humid, hot wind that comes from the southwest: it blows especially in summer, rises suddenly, lashing the coast with violent gusts that cut the...
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Giovanni Fattori and the peaks of Italian engraving

By now, Roberto Longhi 's infamous anathema "Good night Mr. Fattori" hurled at the Macchiaioli and Giovanni Fattori has been cast aside. The Piedmontese critic had branded the Tuscan experience with provincialism, capable of producing only rhetoric...
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"I love the sea because I was born in a seaside town." The sea in the painting of Giovanni Fattori

When the great Fattori Exhibition was organized in Florence in 1925 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Giovanni Fattori (Livorno, 1825 Florence, 1908), it fell to critic Margherita Sarfatti (Venice, 1880 Cavallasca, 1961), a leading figur...
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