Antonio Fontanesi - Finestre sull'Arte

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Fontanesi Returns to Japan: Turin’s GAM Brings Over 200 Works to Three Major Museums

Fontanesi Returns to Japan: Turin’s GAM Brings Over 200 Works to Three Major Museums

Antonio Fontanesi, one of the great figuresof 19th-century Italian and European art, returns to Japan 150 years after moving to Tokyo, where he went to teach at the local Technical School of Fine Arts. The Fondazione Torino Musei is dedicating an exh...
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Antonio Fontanesi, the last romantic. And his legacy from Pellizza da Volpedo to Burri

Antonio Fontanesi, the last romantic. And his legacy from Pellizza da Volpedo to Burri

An artist endowed with a strong painterly, at times poetic, sensibility, Antonio Fontanesi (Reggio Emilia, 1818 - Turin, 1882) spent the last years of his life in total discouragement, following thenegative outcome, or rather, a real rejection he suf...
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