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The Art of the Macchia and the Risorgimento: Representing Culture and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Italy
The Art of the Macchia and the Risorgimento Representing Culture and Nationalism in NineteenthCentury Italy
Author: Albert Boime
During the 1860s and '70s, more than a decade before the development of French Impressionism, Italy produced a group of avant-garde artists whose fervently nationalist paintings anticipated some of Impressionism's theoretical concerns. These artists were called "Macchiaioli" because they based their technique on a quickly rendered macchia...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226063300
ISBN-10: 0226063305
Publication Date: 5/15/1993
Pages: 360
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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