Southwesterly Wind

Galleria dell'Arte Moderna, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

landscape

Even the wind on a deserted beach can be the subject of a painting. The revolution represented by the Macchiaioli movement could not be better exemplified.

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About the Artist

Giovanni Fattori

1825 – 1908

Italian painter and etcher. Initially established as a painter of military subjects, he came to be one of the leading Italian plein-air painters of landscape with figures. He was one of the leaders of the group known as the Macchiaioli. Towards the end of his life he produced many excellent etchings, mainly of rural subjects.

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