Giuseppe Abbati
Giuseppe Abbati | |
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Born | Giuseppe Abbati January 13, 1836 |
Died | February 21, 1868 (aged 32) |
Nationality | Italian |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Macchiaioli |
Giuseppe Abbati (January 13, 1836 – February 21, 1868) was an Italian painter who belonged to the group known as the Macchiaioli.
Biography
Abbati was born in
At the National Exposition in Florence in 1861, Abbati was awarded a medal for his interior views—but refused to accept it, as a gesture of protest against the composition of the jury.
Returning to civilian life at the end of the year, he moved to Castelnuovo della Misericordia and spent the final year of his life painting in the countryside. Abbati died at the age of thirty-two in Florence after his dog bit him, infecting him with rabies.[2]
His paintings are characterized by a bold treatment of light effects. He often painted a luminous landscape scene as seen through the doorway of a darkened interior, as in the View from the Wine Cellar of Diego Martelli (1866).[4] Some of his late landscapes, such as the View of Castiglioncello (1867), are in the greatly elongated horizontal format often favored by the Macchiaioli.[5]
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References
- ISBN 0-300-03547-0
- Steingräber, E., & Matteucci, G. (1984). The Macchiaioli: Tuscan Painters of the Sunlight: March 14–April 20, 1984. New York: Stair Sainty Matthiesen in association with Matthiesen, London. OCLC 70337478