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Adolfo Belimbau was born in Cairo in 1845. He belonged to a wealthy family of Livorno origins.
Belimbau initially divided his life between the family business and his passion for art, working in a studio shared with his friend Eugenio Cecconi, who introduced him to the Macchiaioli environment. Read the full biography

Adolfo Belimbau was born in Cairo in 1845. He belonged to a wealthy family of Livorno origins.
Belimbau initially divided his life between the family business and his passion for art, working in a studio shared with his friend Eugenio Cecconi, who introduced him to the Macchiaioli environment. In Castiglioncello, he frequented the artists hosted on the estate of Diego Martelli, journalist, critic and patron of the Macchiaioli painters.
In 1875, Belimbau embarked on a journey to Tunisia together with Cecconi. From the following year, his presence at the official exhibitions was regular and frequent, participating in the exhibitions in Turin, Milan, Venice and Florence. He mainly paints female portraits, rural landscapes and genre scenes, drawing his subjects from life in the fields, sometimes from the working class world. More often, however, he draws inspiration from the bourgeois salons he frequents.
His paintings were greatly appreciated by the public and were reproduced in the illustrated newspapers of the time. Adolfo Belimbau died, in his nineties, in Florence in 1938.