Macchiaioli
Fattori 200: an exhibition, a city, a pictorial revolution
What if I told you that the sea, the land, and the light of Tuscany are about to tell you an extraordinary story? A story of golden fields, faces marked by hard work, spirited horses, and skies that seem endless. This story has a specific name: Giovanni Fattori. This year, 200 years after his birth, […]
Giovanni Fattori: who was the master of the Macchiaioli who depicted Italy during the Risorgimento?
Do you know who was the painter who revolutionised 19th-century Italian art without ever abandoning his personal artistic quest? If you love plein air painting, landscapes that taste of wind and earth, scenes from real life and history told through sincere brushstrokes, then you must discover the works of Giovanni Fattori, the Tuscan artist who […]
Women in Macchaioli’s works: masterpieces and women’s role
WOMEN IN MACCHIAIOLI’S WORKS: THE MASTERPIECES TO KNOW AND WOMEN’S ROLE The success of Macchiaioli’s works depends certainly on beauty of their paintings, but the role played by women was decisive, too. Woman enters Macchiaioli’s paintings in a brand new way, and the success depends also on the strength of some special women. Macchiaioli’s works and […]
The Macchiaioli
THE MACCHIAIOLI Macchiaioli. Not a year goes by without an exhibition dedicated to the Macchiaioli or to an artist who was attached somehow to the most important artistic movement in Italy in the 19th century. I think it’s time for me to give a definition of “Macchiaioli”, and I will be waiting for your comments […]
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Van Gogh, Renoir and Modigliani at the Ara Pacis: the Impressionist dream in Rome
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An exhibition in Novara on the Italy of the first Italians
Robert Doisneau: the poet photographer in Castelfiorentino
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In this blog, I don't explain the history of art — I tell the stories that art itself tells.