Elin Danielson was born on 3 September 1861 in Norrmark, a small village near Pori in the Gulf of Bornia. Her father, Karl, and mother, Amalia Rosa Gestrin, and their families were of Swedish origin and had been settled in Finland for several generations. Elin spent her childhood on her family’s farm in the country. […]
Among the most famous and appreciated Italian sculptors of the XX Century, Arturo Dazzi was also a figure, still life and landscape painter. He began, very young, as a stone mason and rough-hewer in the sculpture shop of an uncle; then, he enrolled at the Fine Arts Academy of Carrara, where his presence is documented until 1899 […]
The son of an artist father, Pietro, who painted religious works, De Servi was “an artist who depicted the drawing room, upper middle class patronage, series of family portraits and portraits of famous people, moving from the Classical style of his early works to the Romanticism of his early maturity and the Realism of his maturity […]
Carlo Domenici, a very popular painter in Tuscany, enjoyed considerable success during his long career. In 1911 he enrolled at the “Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze”, where he followed courses in drawing, etching and lithography. In 1915, when he was just seventeen, he exhibited at the “Società Amatori e Cultori” of Roma […]
After receiving his primary education in Leghorn, Fanelli enrolled in the Art Institut “A. Passaglia” of Lucca, where he studied from 1893 to 1897 under the guidance of Michele Marcucci and Luigi Norfini. After 1886 he took part in the circle of the young Leghorn painters, who were gathered around Silvestro Lega and, in Florence […]
Born in Leghorn, when he was very young he studied in the studio of Giuseppe Baldini an artist from Leghorn. In 1846 he moved to Florence and chose to study at the school of Giuseppe Bezzuoli. He soon left it and went instead to the “Accademia di Belle Arti”, but did not attend it regularly. Between 1848 and ’49 Giovanni Fattori […]
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Born into a family of modest income in Leghorn, Cafiero Filippelli started working at a very young age, but still managed to gain his diploma at the Scuola d’Arte e Mestieri. Thanks to a scholarship he then went to the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, where he got to know Giovanni Fattori and Galileo Chini […]
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