Giovanni Fattori (Livorno 1825 - Florence 1908) After an apprenticeship with the Livorno artist Giuseppe Baldini with Roman experience, he settled in Florence in 1846. Giuseppe Bezzuoli studied privately with Giuseppe Baldini, but at the end of that year he enrolled at the Academy of the Arts. Read the full biography
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Giovanni Fattori (Livorno 1825 - Florence 1908) After an apprenticeship with the Livorno artist Giuseppe Baldini with Roman experience, he settled in Florence in 1846. Giuseppe Bezzuoli studied privately with Giuseppe Baldini, but at the end of that year he enrolled at the Academy of the Arts. art. Judging by the years of artistic training, documentation is scarce and rarely valuable; however, he has been a frequent visitor to the Caffè Michelangelo since the early 1950s, where in 1892 he painted a Troubadour Poets, a theme dear to historical romanticism, like the theme of Ildegonda inspired by the novels of Tommaso Grossi, who began it in Florence in 1855. period he experimented with the Turin painter Andrea Gastaldi country painting with the Turin painter Andrea Gastaldi, and in 1854 he painted the first quality painting that we know: Now in Modern Self-portrait in the art gallery Since 1858, to harmonize with the neo-formalism of the Tuscan painter, friend by Degas in Rome, he dedicated himself to a contemplative analytical study to obtain an absolutely abstract composition based on the relationship between shadow and light. Between 1862 and 1866 Fattori returned to Livorno and dedicated himself to peasant painting and portraiture, the same themes that Macchiaioli studied at the Piagentina in Florence. In 1867 he settled again in Florence and took part in the national painting competition, winning together with the immortal editorial team of the "Attack of the Virgin". In 1870 he was rewarded at the National Exhibition of Parma with Prince Amedeo wounded in Custosa. In 1872 he went to Rome to paint an important painting, the Horse Market in Piazza Montanara, exhibited in Vienna in 1873, and then lost in a shipwreck on his return to Italy after the Melbourne exhibition in 1880. In 1875 he went to Paris with Francesco Gioli, Egisto Ferroni and Niccolò Cannicci, where he was mainly interested in the paintings of Barbizon and the works of Corot. Since then he has devoted himself almost exclusively to military and rural themes, often against the backdrop of the Maremma, such as Massiliana near Albinia (hosted by Tommaso Corsini), Marsiliana), such as Merca dei coltri and Salto delle sheep together in Venice in 1887. al Riposo ( Milan, Brera Gallery). He worked tirelessly on etching, producing such high quality results that he won a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900. The death of Diego Martelli in 1896 deprived him of friendship and comfort, even material, irreplaceable for him. Having become a widower in 1903, Fattori remarried for the third time, he also painted a portrait of his bride (1905, Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, Livorno), placed it in a corner of the studio and glimpsed behind him a beloved Painting of the Butteri, painted in 1903. Widowed for the third time in 1905, he spent his last years in Florence, comforted by a few remaining friends and students, including Ulvi Liegi, Anna Franchi, Giovanni Malesci.
