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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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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