Silvestro Lega
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| Born | December 8, 1826 Modigliana bei Forlì, Italy |
| Died | September 21, 1895 Florence, Italy |
Silvestro Lega (December 8, 1826 - September 21, 1895) was an Italian realist painter. He was one of the leading artists of the Macchiaioli and was also involved with the Mazzini movement.
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[edit] Biography
Lega was born in Modigliana to an affluent family. 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 studying painting, briefly, under Giuseppe Bezzuoli. During 1847 he attended Luigi Mussini’s school, 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.
As a Garibaldian volunteer, Lega participated in the military campaigns for Italian independence (1848–9) before resuming his training, this time under Antonio Ciseri, completing his first large-scale painting, Doubting Thomas (1850; Modigliana, Osp. Civ.). In 1852 he won the Concorso Trienniale dell’Accademia with David Placating Saul.
He Died in Florence in 1895 of stomach cancer.
[edit] Works
- Il sacro cuore di Gesù, oil Painting
- La casa di don Giovanni Verità, 1855, Oil on Canvass, 37 x 28, Livorno, museum Civico
- Episodio della guerra del 1859 - Ritorno di bersaglieri italiani da una ricognizione, 1861, Oil on Canvass, 57,5 x 95, Florence, Art-Modern gallery, Palazzo Pitti
- Ritratto di Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1861, Oil on Canvass, 111 x 78,4, Private collection
- Tra i fiori del giardino, 1862, Oil on Canvass, 49 x 59, Private collection
- Il primo dolore, 1863, Oil on Canvass, 39,5 x 50, Genoa, Provincial Palace
- L’educazione al lavoro, 1863, oil Painting, 87 x 65, Hotel Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Private collection
- L’elemosina, 1864, Oil on Canvass, 71,8 x 124, Private collection
- La nonna, 1865, Oil on Canvass, 59 x 70, Private collection
- Due bambine che fanno le signore - Divertimento infantile, 1865, Oil on Canvass, 57,5 x 94, Private collection
- Il canto di uno stornello, 1867, Oil on Canvass, 158 x 98, Florance, Art-Modern Gallery, Pitti Palace
- Un dopo pranzo, 1868, Oil on Canvass, 75 x 93,5, Milano, Pinacoteca di Brera
- La visita, 1868, Oil on Canvass applicata su tavola, 31 x 60, Roma, National Art-Modern Galery
- I promessi sposi, 1869, Oil on Canvass, 33,5 x 77, Milan, Museum of Science of Leonardo da Vinci
- La lettura, olio su cartoncino applicato su tavola, Bari, Provincial art-Gallery
- Donna con edera, Oil on Board, Genoa Nervi, Raccolte Frugone Gallery
- Una madre, 1884, Oil on Canvass, 191 x 124, Private collection
- Gabbrigiana in piedi, 1888, Oil on Canvass, 140 x 86, Private collection
- Pagliai al sole, Oil on Board, 28 x 38, ca 1890, Piacenza, Gallary Ricci Oddi
[edit] References
- Steingräber, Erich; Matteucci, Giuliano (1984). The Macchiaioli: tuscan painters of the sunlight. New York: Stair Sainty Matthiesen Gallery.
