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Odoardo Borrani, born in Pisa on 22 August 1833, moved to Florence with his family in 1840. As a child he began his apprenticeship as a restorer with Gaetano Bianchi. Read the full biography

Odoardo Borrani, born in Pisa on 22 August 1833, moved to Florence with his family in 1840. As a child he began his apprenticeship as a restorer with Gaetano Bianchi. In 1853, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts and in the meantime, he drew from true in the countryside around Florence with Telemaco Signorini and Vincenzo Cabianca. Thanks to that experience, Borrani painted glimpses and views of towns and medieval architecture of great clarity and luministic scansion.
In 1855 he achieved his first success with “A New Year's Eve at the Teatro della Pergola” and continued to paint with bright colors and a predominance of red.
In 1959, Borrani retired to the mountains of San Marcello Pistoiese with Sernesi where they created many paintings that were awarded prizes at the Florence Exhibition of 1861.
In the years from 1865 to 1872, Borrani moved to a small house in the countryside, outside Florence, away from any distractions. The paintings that place Borrani among the avant-gardes of stain painting were born here.
Borrani lived from his private painting school until his death in Florence on 14 September 1905.