Now and Then

"Peasant Woman at Montemurlo"
Oil on Cardboard, 10 x 5 1/2
Vincenzo Cabianca, 1860-62

In the course of my research for the recent post on the Macchiaioli, I came across some wonderful figurative work by Vincenzo Cabianca (one of the Macchiaioli). These 19th century Italian paintings immediately brought to mind the work of

The Macchiaioli

"Profile of Donna"
Silvestro Lega

Several different paths have converged over the past few weeks to bring me to the same destination: the Italian school of painters called "The Macchiaioli".  They painted in Tuscany in the second half of the 19th century. Like the French Impressionists, they broke with tradition