Vegetazione ligure a Riomaggiore

Luigi Frugone 1953 Genova - legato

Signorini, Telemaco

GAM 1577

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 58; Larghezza: 90

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Painter, critic and polemicist, Signorini, the son of an excellent Florentine Vedutist painter, was one of the great animators of the Macchiaioli group. The Macchiaioli met in Florence at the Café Michelangelo and from 1855 had undertaken a revolution in painting which aimed to overcome the dominant "academic" culture. His enthusiasm for experimentation led him to travel to Venice and then to Liguria, particularly the eastern part, where he would return again in his later years, attracted by the intensity of the summer light reflected and amplified by the sea.
This luminous landscape, exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1897, was for a long timemisidentified as a location on Elba, but bears witness to the painter's frequent presence on the Ligurian Riviera, with summer stays in the Cinque Terre between 1892 and 1899.

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Luigi Frugone 1953 Genova - legato

Fontanesi, Antonio

GAM1539

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 60.3; Larghezza: 91.7

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This work entered Luigi Frugone's collection in 1925. In order to obtain it, Frugone sold paintings by other artists. The work proposes a recurrent subject in Antonio Fontanesi's repertoire: an isolated figure in a landscape context of which she is nevertheless a central element. There is a perfect correspondence of emotions and feelings between the figure of the peasant girl and the surrounding natural environment, recalling various pictorial experiences of other famous painters such as Costantin Troyon, Camille Corot and Charles Daubigny, which Fontanesi appreciated during his stays in Paris to visit the Universal Exhibition of 1855.
The highly elaborate frame was commissioned and ordered in Siena by Ferruccio Stefani, the Genoese collector's trusted art dealer.