Macchiaioli - Finestre sull'Arte

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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The protagonists of Italian art between the 19th and 20th centuries, from Fattori to Boldini, on display in Lucca

Silvestro Lega's intimate daily scenes, Plinio Nomellini 's landscapes and works by Giovanni Fattori, Galileo Chini, Giovanni Boldini, Oscar Ghiglia and other protagonists ofItalian art between the 19th and 20th centuries are the focus of the exhibit...
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The lands of Pisa in the paintings of the Macchiaioli.

Landscape painting represents one of the most heartfelt subjects of the Macchiaiolo movement, which has left us pieces of great intensity on the genre that can testify to that new approach that the Tuscan group, proponents of a reborn realism, was ab...
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Macchiaioli patrons: who they were, how they supported the group

It is hard to imagine that the Macchiaioli would have been successful if there had not been a host of patrons behind them, not very numerous but nonetheless ready to support their art, either financially or through less direct support, for example by...
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Elin Danielson Gambogi, the story of a painter against convention between Finland and Italy

Art history is a male domain of mastery: a peaceful consideration that few would question. After all, in a purely male-dominated world it could not have been otherwise, so much so that only in relatively recent times has the role of women in the art ...
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Sketch of a masterpiece by Cristiano Banti, pioneer of the Macchiaioli movement, goes up for auction in Rome

One of the preparatory sketches of Boscaiole con fascine, one of the most beautiful paintings by Cristiano Banti (Santa Croce sull'Arno, 1824 - Montemurlo, 1904), a painter of the Macchiaioli group and an early pioneer, along with Signorini and Cabia...
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