The Art of the Macchia and the Risorgimento: Representing Culture and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Italy

by Albert Boime

During the 1860s and '70s, more than a decade before the development of French Impressionism, Italy produced a group of avant-garde artists whose fervently nationalist paintings anticipated some of Impressionism's theoretical concerns. These artists were called "Macchiaioli" because they based their technique on a quickly rendered macchia, or sketch.

In the first extended sociopolitical interpretation in English of this important group,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226063305
• ISBN13: 9780226063300
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"