Luigi Mantovani - Rome, the Capitoline Hill

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It's worth remembering how, immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings. In Luigi Mantovani's work, urban landscapes recur frequently in a series of views of Rome, Milan, and Venice.

This work is a prime example of Luigi Mantovani's style, which can certainly be defined as post-impressionist precisely because of his desire to push the concept of immediate, open-air painting to its extreme. Indeed, in Luigi Mantovani, impressionistic hatching becomes frenetic, encompassing the entire painted surface in a continuum that encompasses space and objects. The recording of light and atmospheric vibrations thus becomes unstoppable, so much so that it corrodes the entire view and brings the subject to an extreme synthesis. The aesthetic impact, resulting from the emotional tension it evokes, is truly evocative.

Luigi Mantovani was a Milanese painter born in 1880 and died in 1957. He enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1896 and studied with Giuseppe Mentessi, Vespasiano Bignami, and Cesare Tallone. He made his debut at the 4th Brera Triennial Exhibition in 1900 and began an exhibition program that saw him regularly present at the exhibitions held at the Famiglia Artistica Milanese and the Società per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanente. He established himself on the art scene in 1906 with his participation in the Milan International Exhibition. From the 1920s onward, he distinguished himself in Milan's cultural circles: he was a leading figure in the Association of Lombard Watercolorists and the "Famiglia meneghina" and was awarded a gold medal at the exhibition dedicated to Lombard landscapes in 1926.

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