Attributed to Telemaco Signorini - Settignano Countryside

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

This panel, which has a more sketchy character than Telemaco Signorini's official production, reveals an unusual side of the great Macchiaioli artist. Indeed, we can appreciate a more spontaneous and instinctive Signorini, compared to his balanced compositions. The lines used to depict this small portion of nature are sketchy; the forms come to life with a few quick strokes. There is a prevailing impressionistic quality, indicating the desire to create a work fully in keeping with the plein air aesthetic. Color is predominant, both in the description of space, through tonal variations, and in the capture of all the light vibrations, with the dense hatching of the brushstrokes.

Telemaco Signorini was a Florentine painter born in 1835 and died in 1901. He was one of the most important representatives of the Macchiaioli group. His painting training began under the guidance of his father, also a painter, and in 1852 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1856, growing impatient with academic study, he abandoned his studies to devote himself entirely to plein air painting with Odoardo Borrani and Vincenzo Cabianca. He was an active participant in the meetings at the Caffè Michelangelo. His trip to Paris, where he met Courbet, was crucial to the development of his pictorial language.

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