Silvestro lega
Italian Realist Painter, 1826-1895
Italian painter. From 1843 to 1847 he attended the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, studying drawing under Benedetto Servolini (1805-79) and Tommaso Gazzarini (1790-1853), then, briefly, painting under Giuseppe Bezzuoli. About 1847 he entered Luigi Mussini's school (see PURISMO), where the teaching emphasized the 15th-century Florentine principles of drawing and orderly construction. Then and for some years afterwards he continued to attend the Scuola del Nudo of the Accademia. After fighting in the military campaigns for Italian independence (1848-9) Lega resumed his training, this time under Antonio Ciseri, executing his first large-scale painting, Doubting Thomas (1850; Modigliana, Osp. Civ.). In 1852 he won the Concorso Trienniale dell'Accademia with David Placating Saul Related Paintings of Silvestro lega :. | Reading | Portrait of Eleonora Tommasi (nn02) | Giuseppe Mazzini morente | the lyric (ll canto di unostornello) | The Pergola (nn02) | Related Artists: Labille-Guiard, AdelaideFrench Neoclassical Painter, 1749-1803
French painter. Labille-Guiard was a painter of the French nobility before the Revolution and survived to paint the citizens of the Directory. Emerging from the 18th-century tradition of powdered wigs and shimmering satins, she captured informal moments in the lives of her subjects, frequently depicting them interrupted from some pastime Chiari, GiuseppeItalian Baroque Era Painter, 1654-1727 Peter Fendi1796-1842
Austrian
Peter Fendi Location
He was born in Vienna, Salzburg at (1796-09-04), and died in Vienna at 1842-08.
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