Ruggero Panerai (

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, March 19, 1862 – 1923) was an Italian painter. Ruggero Panerai Liegender Frauenakt

Ruggero Panerai Schafherde und kleine Hirten am Bachufer

Biography

Born to a humble family, he began studies in 1877 at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, first studying ornament, then focusing on figure painting, and graduating in 1881. He then entered the studio of

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. He specialized in painting military themes and the daily life of peasants in the

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. He was influenced by the

Macchiaioli The Macchiaioli () were a group of Italian painters active in Tuscany in the second half of the nineteenth century. They strayed from antiquated conventions taught by the Italian art academies, and did much of their painting outdoors in order to ...

movement. In 1883 he won a contest at the Florentine academy to win a stipend of 1000 lire. His first major painting, titled ''The Guado'', was exhibited at

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in 1887, and acquired by the Galleria moderna of Rome. However it was transferred to the galleria Pisani in Florence. Again in 1883, he won the Fumagalli competition in Milan a canvas titled: ''The cavallo malato'', depicting a rural scene in the Maremma of Tuscany. For the 1888 Exhibition of

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and the 1889 Exhibition of

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, Panerai painted another large canvas, depicting ''Mazzeppa'', again a study of horsemen of the Maremma. Panerai was named professor of the Royal Academy of Bologna, and Correspondent Professor of the Accademia of Florence. ''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 350-351.

References

1862 births 1923 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Painters from Florence Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze alumni 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub