FATTORI, GIOVANNI. – Painter, born in Livorno on 6 September 1825, died in Florence on 30 August 1908.
He is the most famous and the foremost of the Tuscan “macchiaioli.” A pupil of Bezzuoli at the Academy of Florence and an attentive observer of fifteenth-century painting, in his finest compositions depicting landscapes, genre scenes, and military subjects, as well as in his portraits, some of which are truly beautiful, he seems to reconnect with the great Tuscan pictorial tradition. This is above all evident in the strength of expression achieved through a clear, genuine, extremely luminous colour, distributed in fields that define the planes with vivid clarity, at times delimited by outlines of a very dark brown colour. His works are in the National Gallery of Modern Art in Florence and in that of Rome, in the Civic Museum of Livorno, and in the principal collections of nineteenth-century Italian art. – Vedi tav. LXXIII.
For the bibliography, V. MACCHIAIOLI. Emilio Lavagnino