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Two Ladies in
    the Garden 

    of Castiglioncello



    Giovanni Fattori

    







22" X 28" print on canvas
$135.00


    


Giovanni Fattori was an Italian artist, one of the leaders of the group known as the Macchiaioli. He was initially 
a painter of historical themes and military subjects. In his middle years, inspired by the Barbizon school, he became 
one of theleading Italian plein-airists, painting landscapes, rural scenes, and scenes of military life.The Macchiaioli 
were a group of Italian painters from Tuscany, active in the second half of the nineteenth century, who, breaking 
with the antiquated conventions taught by the Italian academies of art, painted outdoors in order to capture 
natural light, shade, and color. The Macchiaioli were forerunners of the Impressionists who, beginning in the 1860s