Telemaco Signorini

(Firenze, 1835 - 1901)

small oil painting on cardboard made with a bright stroke. Signorini in 1852 enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and already in 1856 he would have left the Academy, thus freeing himself from academic schematisms and arriving at the painting "En plein air", which he practiced together with his friends O. Borrani and V. Cabianca. In 1855 he began to participate in the meetings of the Caffè Michelangiolo, where the painters who participated there experimented the novelties of the "stain". After a trip to Paris in 1861, returning to Italy, he stayed for a short time in Castiglioncello together with other Macchiaioli and then founded with the Lega and Borrani the so-called "School of Piagentina", named after the Florentine town where they used to paint. outdoors, taking inspiration from nature and its poetic seasonal change. In recent years, Signorini went assiduously to Paris, where he came into contact with Impressionist painting and its major exponents, such as Degas, Manet and Monet, undergoing a very particular influence. Signorini was among the most significant personalities of the "Macchiaioli Group", of which he was also a theorist. His paintings are always animated by a sharp impressionism and realism with urban and landscape subjects. Frame in gilded and carved wood. Measure cm. 18 x 27.