Ruggero Panerai Biography
Ruggero Panerai (Florence, 19 March 1862 – Paris, 27 October 1923) was an Italian painter, teacher and illustrator. In 1883 he exhibited All'ombra and Sulla via ferrata at the Promotrice di Firenze. His impressionism - sketchy, easy, fresh, lively - was inspired by the works of Guido Carocci. He painted Florentine street with carriages, from 1882 and At the station, from 1885, the year in which he also painted The passage of the artillerymen from Piazza San Gallo (Florence, Ente Cassa di Risparmio collection): a beautiful ride, a lively and real contemporary scene, set in a Florentine square, the same as his painting Piazza San Gallo in Florence, from 1883. In 1885 he painted Ritorno dalle corse alle Cascine, a painting influenced by the bourgeois and worldly gaze of Giuseppe De Nittis and the manner of Vittorio Matteo Corcos. In 1887 his painting Il guado, presented in Venice, was intended for the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, but instead entered the "Pisani" Gallery. Ruggero Panerai exhibited in 1887 in Genoa and Florence; then to Milan, where he won the "Fumagalli" prize, with The Sick Horse, from 1911 at the Gallery of Modern Art in Palazzo Pitti: a painting representing two herdsmen, bent over the horse abandoned on the ground, in the grandiose setting of the Maremma. The Gallery of Modern Art in Milan owns Butteri in Maremma. Scenes of port or maritime life are his paintings At the port, from 1884, with figures on the quay, immersed in a dense atmosphere bathed in rain, and On the ferry and On the bridge , with figures on board a ship, placed on the bold lines of the flooring. In his large canvas Military Exercises from 1884, Panerai portrayed the soldiers from behind and the peasants from the front and with their gaze lost beyond the horizon. In January 1889 Ruggero Panerai married Enrichetta Castiglioni, the daughter of Marco and Ester Modigliani, in Florence. In 1888 he exhibited the Mazzeppa canvas in Paris, a subject taken from the poem of the same name by Lord Byron. The painting represents a small herd of horses. He was appointed professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
