How are you?
After completing the introduction
of Amedeo Modigliani's works, which was lasted over two years for 100 works, I
am going to start a new program visiting worldwide art galleries and museums
possessing Modigliani's works from this week.
The first place I would like to
introduce is The Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum in Livorno, Italy.
The Giovanni Fattori
Civic Museum is a museum in Livorno, Italy. Located in Villa Mimbelli, the
museum was inaugurated in 1994 in the presence of then-President Oscar Luigi
Scalfaro.
The museum has many paintings by
Giovanni Fattori and other Macchiaioli.
 |
| Self-portrait, Giovanni Fattori (1854) |
The museum's origin dates back to
1877, when the municipal administration established a picture gallery that
collected paintings by artists such as Giovanni Fattori, Enrico Pollastrini and
Cesare Bartolena.
Subsequently, the museum has
acquired works by Raffaello Gambogi, Silvestro Lega, Guglielmo Micheli, Adolfo
Tommasi, Enrico Banti and others.
 |
| Macchiaioli at the Caffè Michelangiolo (c. 1856) |
The museum's collection was
enriched by the addition of archaeological finds and a numismatic collection
donated by Enrico Chiellini between the late of the nineteenth century and the early
of the twentieth century. The museum also purchased 250 drawings and 150
etchings of the artist in 1908, when Fattori died, and the museum was named
after Giovanni Fattori at the beginning of 1930s.
In addition to the works of the
above-mentioned artists, the museum houses works such as various plaster
sketches by Temistocle Guerrazzi and Bertel Thorvaldsen; a bas-relief by
François Duquesnoy; Flemish school paintings of the 17th century; several
paintings of the Madonna and child dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries; three
bronze masks by Pietro Tacca; a collection of official garments of the gonfalonieri
and priors of the city; memories of General Enrico Cialdini, Giuseppe Garibaldi
and Guerrazzi; portraits of prominent Livorno residents and archaeological
finds from Livorno area.
During the War, the museum's
collection was moved out of the city, and when the war was over, a part of the
collection was placed on the second floor of the Villa Fabbricotti, while the
rest was placed in the various municipal offices and warehouses. At the same
time, the museum's collection was enriched by acquisition of works by artists
such as Plinio Nomellini, Guglielmo Micheli, Serafino De Tivoli, Oscar Ghiglia,
Ulvi Liegi and Amedeo Modigliani.
In 1994, the museum, made up of
only a part of the collection, was moved to Villa Mimbelli.
Modigliani's work, now in the Fattori Museum's collection, is "The Tuscan Road", painted in 1899.
 |
| The Tuscan Road, Amedeo Modigliani (1899) |
Thank you.
No comments:
Post a Comment