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Art Bonus at the Fattori Museum in Livorno: restorations and interventions for 143,152.14 euros

The "Giovanni Fattori" Civic Museum, housed in Livorno's Villa Mimbelli , focuses its activities on the preservation of the civic collection dedicated to the Macchiaioli and Post-Macchiaioli painters, with particular attention to the works of Giovann...
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Factors in infrared: hidden drawings of Leghorn master revealed

Opening Thursday, Oct. 30, at 6 p.m., at the Granaries of Villa Mimbelli in Livorno is Secret Signs. Fattori's Painting in Infrared, an in-depth study dedicated to the most recent diagnostic investigations on Giovanni Fattori's paintings. The initiat...
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Livorno celebrates Giovanni Fattori with a permanent itinerary in the places of the painter

An urban itinerary, ten stages, interactive panels, QR codes and multimedia content to restore voice to memories and places linked to Giovanni Fattori (Livorno, 1825 - Florence, 1908). This is how Livorno celebrates the bicentenary of the painter's b...
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Giovanni Fattori, a revolutionary painter. What the Livorno exhibition looks like

There is perhaps some significance in the fact that one of the biggest revolutions in painting of the 19th century started in Livorno. Vincenzo Farinella, lone curator of the Giovanni Fattori 200th anniversary exhibition that recently opened at Villa...
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Livorno, for 200 years of Giovanni Fattori a major exhibition with more than 200 works

On the bicentennial of the birth of Giovanni Fattori (Livorno, 1825 - Florence, 1908), Livorno is preparing to celebrate one of its most illustrious sons with a major cultural event. From Sept. 6, 2025 to Jan. 11, 2026, the Tuscan city will host a se...
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How Giovanni Fattori drew: the sheets from the Central Institute for Graphics in Rome

Giovanni Fattori's drawing, wrote Barna Occhini in 1940, in an article in Frontispiece, "is the most expressive that can be given, but the most reluctant to express itself in words." Occhini, in fact, immediately disregarded his catch-phrase, since h...
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Giovanni Fattori's engravings on display at Bergamo airport

From July 17, 2024 to November 18, 2024,Orio al Serio Airport on the outskirts of Bergamo will host a new exhibition project created by theCarrara Academy in collaboration with Società per l'Aeroporto Civile di Bergamo-Orio al Serio (SACBO). T...
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Giovanni Fattori, the exhibition in Turin, among soldiers and Maremma landscapes

The fame of Giovanni Fattori (Leghorn, 1825 - Florence, 1908), a Leghorn artist with the rough character typical of the Tuscan Maremma, is mostly linked to those works that depict rural life, the peasant world of the butteri with their ever-p...
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