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The name of the movement (which means 1900s) was a deliberate reference to great periods of Italian art in the past, the Quattrocento and Cinquecento (1400s and 1500s). The group rejected European avant garde art and wished to revive the tradition of large format history painting in the classical manner.
Following is a list of Italian painters (in alphabetical order) who are notable for their art. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Basket of Fruit, c. 1595–1596, oil on canvas, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi) was born in Milan, where his father, Fermo (Fermo Merixio), was a household administrator and architect-decorator to the marquess of Caravaggio, a town 35 km (22 mi) to the east of Milan and south of Bergamo. [7]
Movement founded by the Italian artist Lucio Fontana as the Spatialism, its tenets were repeated in manifestos between 1947 and 1954. Combining elements of concrete art, dada and tachism, the movement's adherents rejected easel painting and embraced new technological developments, seeking to incorporate time and movement in their works.
Milan was also the birthplace of the artistic movement called Novecento, which was born in the city at the end of 1922 by Mario Sironi, Achille Funi, Leonardo Dudreville, Anselmo Bucci, Emilio Malerba, Pietro Marussig, and Ubaldo Oppi who, at the Pesaro Gallery in Milan, joined together in the new movement named Novecento by Bucci. [80]
Leonardo's most famous painting of the 1490s is The Last Supper, commissioned for the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan. It represents the last meal shared by Jesus with his disciples before his capture and death, and shows the moment when Jesus has just said "one of you will betray me", and the consternation that ...
Riot in the Gallery is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian painter Umberto Boccioni, one of the main figures of the futurist movement. This painting was created in 1910 and it was first called A Brawl (Una baruffa). Its dimensions are 74 × 64 cm [1] and it is now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
Without ever using ready-made objects as "things" (at least to the extent that the Nouveau Realistes in France did), Merz and his companions drew the guiding lines of a renewed life for Italian art in the global context. Installation of Fibonacci numbers by Mario Merz at the Centre for International Light Art in Unna, Germany.