Giovanni Muzzioli (10 February 18545 August 1894) was an

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Biography

Muzzioli was born in Modena, after his family had moved from Castelvetro. At the age of 15 years, he began to attend the local Academy of Fine Arts of Modena, working under Antonio Simonazzi and Asioli. At the age of seventeen (1871), years later, he gained the Poletti scholarship entitling him to four years residence in

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studying at the

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, working first under professor Podesti, and later after 1874 under professor Coghetti. In Rome, he painted an ''Abraham and Sarah at the court of the Pharaoh'', a painting which he sent back to Modena. Soon thereafter, he moved to

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, where he remained the rest of his life. After his return to Modena, Muzzioli visited the Paris Exhibition, and there came under the influence of Sir

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, and began painting subjects from classical history of Greece and Rome. He painted ''Poppea che si fa portare la Testa of Ottavia'', which was exhibited in Florence, 1876. At Turin, in 1880, he displayed a canvas of ''The Magdalen'', which he completed for the Della Valle brothers of Modena. His first important pictures were ''In the Temple of Bacchus'' and ''Funeral Rites in Egypt'' (1881, Milan Exhibition), where the former won a prize of 1000 lire, and was praised by the critic

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as the ''most simple and equilibrated of the Exhibition''. The critic Jarro said of the same painting: ''We discern (here) the man who knows how to find the word of his own, who says what he has in mind, without violence of words, or turbulence in voice. He captures the epoch, the people, the environment, with a truth, with enviable evidence, (there is here) no phantasmagoria, none of the sophisticated pomp of a scenographer''.''Vi scorgete l'uomo, che sa trovare la parola propria, che dice quello che ha in animo, senza violenza di termini, o turbolenza di fattura. Egli ha colto il momento, le persone, l'ambiente, con una verità, una evidenza invidiabile, senza alcuna fantasmagoria, senza ricercate pompe di scenografo.'' see Gubernatis, page 319. At the Esposizione of Venice of 1887 he exhibited ''September Sun'', while in 1888 to Bologna he sent the ''Funeral of Britannicus''. This latter painting was bought by signor Lionello Cavalieri of Ferrara, and is considered his masterpiece, and was much lauded at the

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Exhibition. Another work by Muzzioli was ''Le feste dì Flora''. From 1878 to his death (1894) Muzzioli lived in Florence, where he painted the altarpiece for the church of

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. Muzzioli was named professor of the Academies of Modena, Florence, and other cities. Among the painters he influenced was Eugenio Zampighi.

References

Attribution: * Endnotes: **A. R. Willard (London, 1898) ''History of Modern Italian Art'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Muzzioli, Giovanni 1854 births 1894 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Modena Painters from Florence Neo-Pompeian painters 19th-century Italian male artists