Macchiaioli - Finestre sull'Arte

Giovanni Fattori, a revolutionary painter. What the Livorno exhibition looks like

There is perhaps some significance in the fact that one of the biggest revolutions in painting of the 19th century started in Livorno. Vincenzo Farinella, lone curator of the Giovanni Fattori 200th anniversary exhibition that recently opened at Villa...
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Livorno, for 200 years of Giovanni Fattori a major exhibition with more than 200 works

On the bicentennial of the birth of Giovanni Fattori (Livorno, 1825 - Florence, 1908), Livorno is preparing to celebrate one of its most illustrious sons with a major cultural event. From Sept. 6, 2025 to Jan. 11, 2026, the Tuscan city will host a se...
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How Giovanni Fattori drew: the sheets from the Central Institute for Graphics in Rome

Giovanni Fattori's drawing, wrote Barna Occhini in 1940, in an article in Frontispiece, "is the most expressive that can be given, but the most reluctant to express itself in words." Occhini, in fact, immediately disregarded his catch-phrase, since h...
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Eugenio Cecconi, painter of the Maremma, on display in Forte dei Marmi

One of the most important retrospectives dedicated to Eugenio Cecconi (Livorno, 1842 - Florence, 1903) a painter friend of the Macchiaioli and authentic witness of a Tuscany made up of countryside, hunting and everyday peasant life, comes to life in ...
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Genoa dedicates an exhibition to the heirs of the Macchiaioli, from Nomellini to Gioli and Tommasi

In Genoa, Palazzo della Meridiana is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the postmacchiaioli, entitled Gli Eredi dei Macchiaioli. From Silvestro Lega to Plinio Nomellini, curated by Simona Bartolena with the collaboration of Armando Fettolini. The exh...
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Ulvi Liegi between stain and impression in a painting that is an ode to color. The exhibition in Livorno

It is now more than 54 years since Giuliano Matteucci wrote that Ulvi Liegi 's painting is "now finally recognized by all as one of the first voices of current modern art." Yet despite the fact that it was one of the pivotal figures in the history of...
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A Macchiaiolo to be rediscovered: Stanislao Pointeau on display for Uffizi Diffusi

Until Feb. 16, 2025, the "Giuliano Ghelli" Museum in San Casciano in Val di Pesa (Florence) is hosting an exhibition dedicated for the first time to Stanislao Pointeau (Florence, 1833 - Pisa, 1907), the French-Florentine painter who played a fundamen...
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In Livorno, an exhibition dedicated to Anna Franchi, the woman who launched the Macchiaioli movement

From Nov. 28 to Dec. 7, 2024, the city of Livorno will pay tribute to Anna Franchi (1867-1954), the great art critic who had the merit of being among the first to support the Macchiaioli movement and to intuit its importance (read here a long in-dept...
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