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''The Bad Mothers'' or ''The Evil Mothers'' ( it, Le cattive madri) is an oil on canvas painting by
File:Giovanni_Segantini_005.jpg, ''The Fruit of Life'' (1889)
File:Segantini_Die_Strafe_der_WollĂĽstigen.jpg, ''The Punishment of Lust'' (1891)
File:Engel des Lebens 1894.jpg, ''The Angel of Life'' (1894)
''The Bad Mothers'' or ''The Evil Mothers'' ( it, Le cattive madri) is an oil on canvas painting by Giovanni Segantini
Giovanni Segantini (15 January 1858 – 28 September 1899) was an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. He was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century, and his paintings were collected by ...
, created in 1894, now in the Ă–sterreichische Galerie Belvedere, in Vienna. It is the last of four works in which he keeps returning to the motif of women in trees. The other three were ''The Fruit of Life'' (1889), ''The Punishment of Lust
''The Punishment of Lust'' ( it, La Punizione della Lussuria), also called ''The Punishment of Luxury'', is an 1891 oil painting on canvas by the artist Giovanni Segantini.
Background
Giovanni Segantini was born in the County of Tyrol in the Aus ...
'' (1891) and ''The Angel of Life'' (1894), and together, they were his first Symbolist
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...
works.''Segantini: il ritorno a Milano'', Mazzotta (Skira), pp. 234–235,
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