Different times, different customs: in the middle of the 19th century, when war was still seen as a legitimate "continuation of politics by other means", an artist's career could start by winning a competition for a battle painting. Giovanni Fattori achieved this in 1861 with the "Battlefield of Magenta", which celebrates the victory of Piedmont-Sardinia over the Austrians in 1895. A few years later the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia was the driving force behind the "Risorgimento", the unification of Italy as one nation. Fattori's painting hangs today in the "Galleria d'Arte moderne" in Florence.
Giovanni Fattori was born in Livorno, where he was also trained as a painter by Giuseppe Baldini before studying in Florence at the "Accademia di belli Arti". Fattori generally had a non-conformist streak: in 1848/49 he took part in the independence movement that wanted to liberate Veneto from Austrian rule. As an artist, he was co-founder of a movement that turned away from the "academic" style of painting and turned towards realism. Because of their preference for natural landscapes, these deviants were initially scornfully called "Macchiaioli", undergrowth painters, by the established. However, this soon became a concept of quality that the group proudly adopted.
It is no accident that Camille Corot and Édouard Manet were his declared role models. His speciality were landscape paintings, preferably rural scenes, and his later battle scenes also turned out to be very real, such as "The fallen horseman" or "Mary Stuart at Crookston", which deals with the capture of the Scottish queen after a lost battle. Another of Fattori's specialities were "sketches", pictures on small wooden boards, preferably cigar-lid boxes. His paintings were never as colourful as the works of Impressionism, for example, but rather in delicate sepia, grey and brown tones.
Fattori dared to take the step from a purely academic to a realistic painting style, but remained attached to the classical style of painting and strictly rejected other "rebellious" styles of the time. Throughout his life he was an opponent of Impressionism and caused a great stir in 1891 when he sharply attacked the art movement of "Pointilism" (a painting style that used color theory to assemble picture compositions from small spots - the most famous representative was certainly Paul Signac) in a polymite manner. Four years later Fattori, who had been teaching at his "Accademia di Bella Arti" since 1869, advanced to full professor: he taught landscape painting at the Alma Mater in Florence, where he had once studied himself. The last years of his life were overshadowed by the death of his second wife, as well as by disappointment over the social development in unified Italy on the one hand and the "betrayal" of some of his students who turned to post-impressionism and pointilism on the other. Fattori died in 1908 at the age of 83.
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1117153).jpg "Avenue with Oxen and Stonebreaker by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Why Not Say It? by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Italian Campaign of 1859: \"The charge of the Piedmontese cavalry\". (1825-1908). Rome, Galleria Nazionale d")
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.jpg "The Italian Camp at the Battle of Magenta, June 1859 by Giovanni Fattori")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1490129).jpg "Roofs of Via Nazionale in Florence, c.1867 by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The South-West Wind by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "An old woman in an armchair wearing a black dress by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Battle of Magenta, 1860 by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by Giovanni Fattori")
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_1890-1900_Sun_1_-_(MeisterDrucke-1021481).jpg "The Path Between Olives. Painting by Giovanni Fattori by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Step Daughter by Giovanni Fattori")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1500173).jpg "Episode of the Assault on the Madonna of Discovery by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Man by Giovanni Fattori")
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_oil_on_canvas_83x70_c_-_(MeisterDrucke-1110627).jpg "Portrait of his first wife, by Giovanni Fattori by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The battle of Custoza by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Garibaldi at Palermo by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The Battle Lines, 1884 by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The Rest by Giovanni Fattori")
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_Ec_Ital_-_(MeisterDrucke-999916).jpg "Portrait of Miss Soccoli by Giovanni Fattori")
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_oil_on_canvas_885_-_(MeisterDrucke-1110213).jpg "Marking young bulls in Maremma by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Signora Martelli in Castiglioncello, c.1867 by Giovanni Fattori")
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_The_horse_fall_Painting_by_Giovanni_Fattori_-_(MeisterDrucke-1024608).jpg "The foot in the horse (The horse fall) by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Portrait of the first wife by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Self Portrait by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Roman Countryside by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Episode of Campaign Against Brigandage by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Peasant Macchiaiole in the Fields During Harvest by Giovanni Fattori")
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_etching_-_(MeisterDrucke-1117600).jpg "Sailors Resting (etching) by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The Camp by Giovanni Fattori")
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_86_-_(MeisterDrucke-1110180).jpg "Branding of Young Bulls in Maremma (detail) by Giovanni Fattori")
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_c1871_(panel)_-_(MeisterDrucke-320278).jpg "The Watch (The White Wall), c.1871 by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The Letter to the Field by Giovanni Fattori")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1500753).jpg "Avenue with oxen and stone breakers, c.1875 by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Sunset on the Sea by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The Rotunda at Palmieri by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Maremma Toscana by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Cattle Amongst Olive Trees by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Self-portrait at the age of 29 by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Self-portrait at the age of 59 by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Hay Stack, 1867-70 by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Italy, Florence, The Italian Field after the Battle of Magenta (detail) by Giovanni Fattori")
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_oil_on_panel_-_(MeisterDrucke-1423967).jpg "The Mantua massacres, by Giovanni Fattori by Giovanni Fattori")
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_oil_on_canvas_965x73_cm_-_(MeisterDrucke-1119869).jpg "White Road by Giovanni Fattori")
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_oil_on_canvas_775X2057_cm_-_(MeisterDrucke-1110095).jpg "Maremma Tuscany by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The Third Wife by Giovanni Fattori")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1500553).jpg "Two Peasant Women with Flocks in the Livorno Countryside, c.1865 by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Cavalry Charge by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Prince Amedeo Avenue in Florence by Giovanni Fattori")
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_oil_on_panel_-_(MeisterDrucke-1120117).jpg "Effect of the Sun by Giovanni Fattori")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1509664).jpg "Maremma Pasture. Grazing Horses by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mrs. Biliotto by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The Workers")
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.jpg "The Woodcutter by Giovanni Fattori")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1503244).jpg "A military reconnaissance, scouting by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Maremma Toscana, circa 1894 (detail) by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The Mortuary or The Indifferent by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Assault on Madonna della Scoperta by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Cavalry at Rest by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Lying Cows by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Convoy of supplies on the march by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The Battle of Custoza by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The Watchman on the River by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The Battle of Montebello by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Patching nets by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The Sheep Jump by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mr Mazzoli by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Man caught up by a stirrup by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "The Cavalry Charge by Giovanni Fattori")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1407584).jpg "The Waiting by Giovanni Fattori")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1103829).jpg "The Trooper by Giovanni Fattori")
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_Detail_Painting_by_Giovanni_Fatt_-_(MeisterDrucke-984258).jpg "La Rotunda di Palmieri (detail) by Giovanni Fattori")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1090935).jpg "Buttero on horseback (Tuscan cowboy) by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Uhlans Charge by Giovanni Fattori")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1459771).jpg "Portrait of the First Wife by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Cavalry Charge in Montebello by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Diego Martelli on Horseback by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Self Portrait, 1874 by Giovanni Fattori")
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.jpg "Cousin Argia, 1861 by Giovanni Fattori")
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