Visconti Adolfo Feragutti Biography
Adolfo Feragutti Visconti was born in Pura, in the Canton of Ticino, on 25 March 1850. He was a Swiss-Italian painter, fresco painter and engraver. and it is supposed that he learned the first rudiments of painting thanks to his father and uncle, both plasterers. Subsequently, he first attended the Brera Academy in Milan, where he took courses in drawing, figure, perspective and landscape, and then enrolled at the Florence Academy but remained there for very little. From 1873 to 1879 he participated in the Brera exhibitions. His numerous women's heads and figure studies, greeted with enthusiasm by critics, indicate the artist's interest in life studies, so far from the large historical and genre picture preferred by the Academy professors. Three years later, at the annual Permanente exhibition in Milan, he presented two still lifes entitled "The throat at ten years old" and "The throat at twenty years old", attracting considerable interest from the public and critics. The still life became as important as the portrait or landscape for experimenting with the ongoing studies on light and color. Feragutti died suddenly in Milan on 10 March 1924.
