Adriano Cecioni

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Adriano Cecioni (born July 26, 1836 in Florence , † May 23, 1886 ibid) was an Italian painter , sculptor and caricaturist of realism .

Adriano Cecioni

Life

Cecioni studied from 1859 at the academy in Florence with the sculptor Aristodemo Costoli . In the same year he joined the 2nd independence struggle of Giuseppe Garibaldi , as well as Telemaco Signorini . In Florence he was associated with the group of Macchiaioli , who opposed academic painting and painted realistically, especially outdoors. His design for a statue of Karl Albert of Savoy won a prize in Florence in 1860, but was rejected by members of the academy and so he was not commissioned. In 1863 he was involved in the founding of a realistically oriented painting school in Naples similar to the Macchiaioli , the school of Resina , to which Giuseppe de Nittis belonged , among others . There his sculpture Der Suicide was created ; which he exhibited in Florence in 1867 and attracted attention. He was inspired by the natural sculptures of victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 that were found during excavations near Naples . He later characterized the style in this sense as a surprise after nature (sorpresa alla natura) - sculptures as almost accidental snapshots. After returning to Florence in 1867, he finally joined the Macchiaioli movement, being their theoretician and first historian. In 1868 he had great success with his sculpture Child with Rooster (Bambino col gallo) in Paris.

In 1870/71 and 1873 he was in Paris (during the Franco-Prussian War) and in between 1871/72 he visited London and drew caricatures for the magazine Vanity Fair . As a painter, after returning to Italy, he turned to domestic, family genre scenes. In 1884 he became a drawing teacher at the Istituto di Magistero Femminile. He died of a heart attack.

Fonts

  • Scritti e Ricordi, 1905 (art reviews)

gallery

  • Portrait of his wife, 1860s

  • Housework, 1869

  • Aunt Erminia, 1867 to 1870

  • Samuel Morley, illustration from Vanity Fair magazine

  • House interior with person, 1868

  • The Interrupted Game, 1863–1867

  • Caffè Michelangiolo in Florence 1861

  • The Embroiderers, 1866

  • Tap, 1865

  • Newspaper reading

literature

  • Norma Broude The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century , Yale University Press 1987
  • E. Steingräber, G. Matteucci The Macchiaioli: Tuscan Painters of the Sunlight , exhibition catalog, March / April 1984, New York: Stair Sainty Matthiesen Gallerie, in collaboration with Matthiesen, London.

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personal data
SURNAME Cecioni, Adriano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1886
Place of death Florence