{"product_id":"angiolo-tommasi-senza-titolo","title":"Angiolo Tommasi - Untitled","description":"\u003cp\u003ePortraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the depicted subject, an attempt to convey their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation. According to a note on the back, the work in question is supposed to be a portrait of Count Delgas. This notable Livorno native appears on a marble stele that cites the benefactors of the Ospedale della Misericordia in the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eA verist and impressionist artist, Angiolo Tommasi is also known for his excellent portraiture, thanks to his highly advanced painting technique that allows him to achieve a detailed, almost photographic, physiognomic precision. Angiolo Tommasi is completely faithful to an objective rendering of the portrait, accurately capturing every detail, especially the face. The painter manages to transfer every tiny wrinkle of the subject's face to the canvas, and with his loose brushstrokes, the fruit of excellent academic training, he achieves not only precision but also a fine mobility of the facial features, softly blending them into the atmosphere and achieving a greater degree of naturalness. However, the entire figure is immersed in the decontextualized space of the work, fluidly, without contrast, welcoming the delicate light that illuminates the face. The clothing, the hairstyle, and above all the demeanor of this portrait,\u003cbr\u003e \nin which the subject appears in an ordinary manner, with a certain degree of contextualization not only psychological but also social, indicate this painting as a typical product of 19th-century veristic portraiture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eAngiolo Tommasi, Adolfo's cousin, a painter born in Livorno in 1858, who died in Torre del Lago in 1923, completed his first studies in his homeland and continued them at the Florentine Academy; but Fattori advised him to leave school and go to the countryside to work from life. His family, who had settled in Florence, also had great familiarity with the \"Macchiaioli\" and particularly with Lega. Rather than painting landscapes, he dedicated himself to painting types and scenes of the countryside and the sea. He then worked between Torre del Lago and Livorno, which he abandoned only for a trip to South America (1899), visiting Argentina and going as far as Tierra del Fuego, and gradually distanced himself from the post-Macchiaioli tradition in search of greater air and light. He exhibited mainly in Florence and Livorno, also in personal exhibitions, one of which was very successful in Buenos Aires. Works by Tommasi are preserved in galleries in Rome, Florence, Livorno and Udine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Riccardo RIpoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56218044629378,"sku":"rrip001","price":3400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/PHOTO-2021-10-15-10-56-222.jpg?v=1768470531","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/angiolo-tommasi-senza-titolo","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}