La passeggiata del Muro Torto by Antonio Puccinelli

Antonio Puccinelli (19 March 1822,

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- 22 July 1897,

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) was an Italian painter; one of the group known as the " Macchiaioli".

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He was the son of a tailor and was planning to follow his father in that trade, but a group of local citizens noticed his talent for art. Thanks to a scholarship, he was able to attend the

Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze The Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze ("academy of fine arts of Florence") is an instructional art academy in Florence, in Tuscany, in central Italy. It was founded by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1563, under the influence of Giorgio Vasari. ...

, where he studied with

Giuseppe Bezzuoli Giuseppe Bezzuoli (28 November 1784 – 13 September 1855) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassicism, Neoclassic period, active in Milan, Rome, and his native city of Florence. Biography He studied as a young man under Jean-Baptiste Desmarais a ...

. In 1846, he won the Grand Prize there for his painting ''The Young Moses Tramples the Crown of Pharaoh'' (Now at the ). During the

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, he enlisted in the Tuscan Expeditionary Corps and fought in the

First Italian War of Independence The First Italian War of Independence ( it, Prima guerra d'indipendenza italiana), part of the Italian Unification (''Risorgimento''), was fought by the Kingdom of Sardinia (Piedmont) and Italian volunteers against the Austrian Empire and other ...

.Avanzi, Beatrice; et al. ''Macchiaioli. Realismo impresionista en Italia'', 2013, Fundación Mapfre After the war's end, he received another scholarship and spent three years in Rome (1849-1852), where he worked with

Tommaso Minardi Tommaso Minardi (December 4, 1787 – January 12, 1871) was an Italian painter and author on art theory, active in Faenza, Rome, Perugia, and other towns. He painted in styles that transitioned from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. Biography Mi ...

and was influenced by

purismo ''Purismo'' was an Italian cultural movement which began in the 1820s. The group intended to restore and preserve language through the study of medieval authors, and such study extended to the visual arts. Inspired by the Nazarenes from Germany, ...

. He was also attracted to the works of

Dominique Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the a ...

.''Enciclopedia del Arte Garzanti'', 1991, Ediciones B, He was among the first artists to become habitués of the Caffè Michelangiolo, which was a favorite meeting place of the Macchiaioli (a group that rejected the prevailing Academicism), until 1870.Chilvers, Ian; ''Diccionario de arte'', 2007, Alianza Editorial, His first painting in the new style came in 1852, with ''La passeggiata del Muro Torto'' (Walking Tour at the Muro Torto). Shortly after, he opened a studio in Florence and became a Professor at the Accademia. In 1859, he was awarded a prize at the Concorso Ricasoli for his portrait of Vincenzo Gioberti. He also participated in the of 1861. His success there resulted in an appointment as a professor at the

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena. Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia f ...

. In 1862, he married Francesca Guasconi, with whom he had been having a relationship for ten years. This was probably a last wish, as she died shortly thereafter and he married Adelaide Badioli, a cousin of one of his students. In the years after 1872, for unknown reasons, his output gradually decreased. In 1897, he retired from the Accademia in Bologna and died not long after.

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