Purism - Finestre sull'Arte

Lorenzo Bartolini's Ammostatore, the breakthrough work that ushered in purist art

It is very curious to think that one of the capital works in the history of Italian art, namely Lorenzo Bartolini 's (Savignano di Prato, 1777 - Florence, 1850)Ammostatore, had gone essentially unnoticed, as scholar Stefano Grandesso recalled in a pa...
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Sleeping children in purist art from Giovanni Dupré to Tito Sarrocchi

When Giovanni Dupré (Siena, 1817 - Florence, 1882) first exhibited his Sleep of Innocence, a marble sculpture he had begun working on in 1844, the success it garnered was considerable and unanimous. He presented it in public that it was not ye...
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