DOI Heft:
No. 158 (May, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0380
Studio- Talk
"IN THE LOOKING-GLASS" BY G. ISALLA
and possesses the power of expressing this in his
drawings. A. S. L.
FFLORENCE.—My prophecy—that the ex-
j periment of an independent exhibition,
made in 1904 in the Palazzo Corsini,
would be renewed—has happily come
true. The Societa Promotrice Fiorentina returned
to its former quarters last year, and enterprising
artists like Adolfo de Karolis, Galileo Chini,
L. • Tommasi, Lolli, and S. Tofanari succeeded
in giving to each room an attractively decorative
character and a general aspect of grandeur and
repose. Besides the work of the artists mentioned
we noticed figures and landscapes by the brothers
Gioli and by Fattori; a delightful Shepherdess by
Niccold Cannicci; a vigorous Buffalo Herd by
Clemente Origo; and other sculptures by Roman-
elli. The little painted terra-cottas of Libero
Andreotti achieved a well-merited success through
their suggestion of the antique Tanagra tradition,
carried out with much freedom of handling and
with modern feeling.
Very well-timed was also the bringing to-
gether of various pictures—principally drawn from
tne collection of Cristiano Banti—by the old
" macchiaiuoli"; i.e., by that group of painters,
360
natives of Florence or settlers there, who about the
year i860 devoted themselves with much dis-
interested ardour to the study of truth and the
massing of colour, in order to make a stand against
frigid academicism. I will mention only Vincenzo
Cabianca, Signorini, Nino Costa, Pasini, De Nittis,
and Fontanesi. To this admirable group belonged
also Giovanni Boldini, who had already given
tokens of originality and verve in a few little
portraits.
The object of the Societa Promotrice is the
culture of art in general, combined with a more
open-minded encouragement of the performances
of juvenile talent. Accordingly, a more alert and
discerning judgment was apparent at the last show
in the Via Campidoglio. A whole room was devoted
to landscapes, portraits and drawings by Prof. Simi,
who is certainly a very able and scrupulous
draughtsman. Other notable pictures are Kienerk's
Spring and Giuseppe Viner's Fertility, to which
the first prize was deservedly awarded. The
latter artist is a young landscape-painter of sober
"THE SHEPHERDESS " BY N. CANNICCI
"IN THE LOOKING-GLASS" BY G. ISALLA
and possesses the power of expressing this in his
drawings. A. S. L.
FFLORENCE.—My prophecy—that the ex-
j periment of an independent exhibition,
made in 1904 in the Palazzo Corsini,
would be renewed—has happily come
true. The Societa Promotrice Fiorentina returned
to its former quarters last year, and enterprising
artists like Adolfo de Karolis, Galileo Chini,
L. • Tommasi, Lolli, and S. Tofanari succeeded
in giving to each room an attractively decorative
character and a general aspect of grandeur and
repose. Besides the work of the artists mentioned
we noticed figures and landscapes by the brothers
Gioli and by Fattori; a delightful Shepherdess by
Niccold Cannicci; a vigorous Buffalo Herd by
Clemente Origo; and other sculptures by Roman-
elli. The little painted terra-cottas of Libero
Andreotti achieved a well-merited success through
their suggestion of the antique Tanagra tradition,
carried out with much freedom of handling and
with modern feeling.
Very well-timed was also the bringing to-
gether of various pictures—principally drawn from
tne collection of Cristiano Banti—by the old
" macchiaiuoli"; i.e., by that group of painters,
360
natives of Florence or settlers there, who about the
year i860 devoted themselves with much dis-
interested ardour to the study of truth and the
massing of colour, in order to make a stand against
frigid academicism. I will mention only Vincenzo
Cabianca, Signorini, Nino Costa, Pasini, De Nittis,
and Fontanesi. To this admirable group belonged
also Giovanni Boldini, who had already given
tokens of originality and verve in a few little
portraits.
The object of the Societa Promotrice is the
culture of art in general, combined with a more
open-minded encouragement of the performances
of juvenile talent. Accordingly, a more alert and
discerning judgment was apparent at the last show
in the Via Campidoglio. A whole room was devoted
to landscapes, portraits and drawings by Prof. Simi,
who is certainly a very able and scrupulous
draughtsman. Other notable pictures are Kienerk's
Spring and Giuseppe Viner's Fertility, to which
the first prize was deservedly awarded. The
latter artist is a young landscape-painter of sober
"THE SHEPHERDESS " BY N. CANNICCI