DOI Heft:
No. 40 (July, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Beltrami, G.: An Italian artist: Luigi Conconi
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17297#0105
An Italian Artist
MOTIYS MEDIEYALE FROM A TAINTING BY LUIGI CONCONI
Conconi once painted a
fan to present to a lady
and called it La Maga, the
Sorceress : a figure of a
woman clad in white, with
a high-pointed hat, such as
witches are supposed to
wear, walking in the green
fields; her face, of inde-
scribable loveliness, is lit
up with a smile, as she gazes
intently into the yellow eyes
of a toad which she holds
in one hand, while with the
other she lovingly strokes
its knotty skin. I am sorry
it is not possible to give a
reproduction of this fan in
The Studio ; for on this
little piece of white silk
Conconi has wrought a
masterpiece which, in a
sense, is his profession of
faith; and this monstrous
union of the most delicate
beauty with the most gro-
tesque deformity is the very
essence of the personality of
this truly remarkable artist.
"NEVE SUI TETT1 " FROM AN ETCHING BY L. CONCONI
90
MOTIYS MEDIEYALE FROM A TAINTING BY LUIGI CONCONI
Conconi once painted a
fan to present to a lady
and called it La Maga, the
Sorceress : a figure of a
woman clad in white, with
a high-pointed hat, such as
witches are supposed to
wear, walking in the green
fields; her face, of inde-
scribable loveliness, is lit
up with a smile, as she gazes
intently into the yellow eyes
of a toad which she holds
in one hand, while with the
other she lovingly strokes
its knotty skin. I am sorry
it is not possible to give a
reproduction of this fan in
The Studio ; for on this
little piece of white silk
Conconi has wrought a
masterpiece which, in a
sense, is his profession of
faith; and this monstrous
union of the most delicate
beauty with the most gro-
tesque deformity is the very
essence of the personality of
this truly remarkable artist.
"NEVE SUI TETT1 " FROM AN ETCHING BY L. CONCONI
90