{"product_id":"nino-caffe-senza-titolo-5","title":"Nino Caffè - Untitled","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Portraiture 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 subject depicted, an attempt to capture 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eAnother original and interesting variation on the theme of a prelate by painter Nino Caffè. In this case, he forgoes the genre scene to instead focus on a single portrait of a sitter using the simple expressive medium of drawing on paper. The first striking feature is the elegant graphic line that, with sharp, broken strokes, constructs the monumental figure of the prelate with a clear intent of plastic exaltation. That this intent borders on caricature is also evident from the subject's face, which is unusually physiognomically characterized for an iconic painter like Nino Caffè.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eGiovannino Caffè, known as Nino, was born in Alfedena in 1908 and died in Pesaro in 1975. He was an Italian painter and engraver. His career began in the 1930s, and by 1938 he was invited to the Venice Biennale. He is known as the \"painter of the priests\" due to the characteristic subject matter that characterizes much of his work. This iconographic motif likely originated between 1943 and 1944, when Caffè was a teacher at the Academy of Urbino and lived in front of the city's cathedral.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gattei Antonella","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56212492157314,"sku":"AGAT004","price":1400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/IMG_8875.jpg?v=1768405908","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/nino-caffe-senza-titolo-5","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}