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They attended literary fairs and commissioned paintings because they believed in the future of the Macchiaioli. The merchants of the French colonies and the Anglo-American community residing in Florence are also present as defenders of this new art. Diego Martelli, critic and patron, deserves a place of honor for opening his house in Castiglioncello, near Livorno, to the Macchiaioli movement.
He even transformed the small village into a place that symbolizes this free- dom of spirit and colorful creativity.
The beaches with their fishermen’s houses and the wheat fields under the blue sky return in the works of Macchiaoli who liked to depict all maritime and rural scenes.
Rebel artists of freedom and love in a finally unified nation, supported by patrons and merchants ...
An exhibition with a very Italian flavor in its sweetness of life, its colors and its tenderness.
«Macchiaioli, Masterpieces of reborn Italy»
- until April 18, 2021
- Palazzo Zabarella -Padua -Italy www.zabarella.it
Giovanni Fattori
La strada bianca, 1887 circa olio su tela, cm. 95x73 Viareggio, Istituto Matteucci


































































































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