Giovanni Fattori was an Italian artist, one of the leaders of the group known as the Macchiaioli.
19 Facts About Giovanni Fattori
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Giovanni Fattori was initially a painter of historical themes and military subjects.
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Giovanni Fattori made it a habit to note all his observations in small notebooks that he always kept with him, illustrating with innumerable sketches.
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Giovanni Fattori probably painted his first landscapes in Gastaldi's company.
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Giovanni Fattori received an award at the Parma exhibition of 1870 for his battle scene Prince Amadeo Feritio at Custoza.
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Giovanni Fattori started giving private painting lessons and, from 1869, he taught twice weekly at the Florentine Academy.
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Giovanni Fattori's disillusionment is revealed in the harsher realism of his works from the late 1870s.
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Giovanni Fattori's etchings were innovative in their technique and composition.
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Giovanni Fattori's painted sketches made outdoors are typically painted on small wood panels.
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Giovanni Fattori participated in the exhibitions at Cologne, Bologna, Milan, Turin and Florence, He was present with one painting, the Brush Gatherers, at the Italian Exhibition in London.
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In 1891 Giovanni Fattori married for the second time, this time with his companion Marianna Bigozzi Martinelli.
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Giovanni Fattori started drawing illustrations, first for I promessi sposi, a historical novel by Manzoni and in 1896 illustrations for the satirical newspaper Fiammetta.
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Giovanni Fattori continued teaching at the Accademia, but preferred clinging to tradition instead of adopting new ideas.
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Giovanni Fattori was buried, with other illustrious people from Livorno, in the loggia next to the church Santuario della Madonna di Montenero in the village of Monte Nero.
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Giovanni Fattori is considered the most prominent member of the Macchiaioli.
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Giovanni Fattori's work is dominated by military subjects, which are rarely battle scenes but rather soldiers in encampments, soldiers mustering, or infantry units at rest.
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Giovanni Fattori painted sensitive portraits, landscapes, rural scenes and horses.
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Giovanni Fattori was respected by his colleagues but, due to his aloofness, he didn't get the recognition of the public at large.
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Giovanni Fattori is honored in his home town by the Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori in Livorno.