Silvestro Lega

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, where the teaching emphasized the 15th-century Florentine principles of drawing and orderly construction.

6 artworks in collection