1) Italian art movement
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The Macchiaioli (makkjaˈjɔːli) were a group of Italian painters active in Tuscany in the second half of the nineteenth century, who, breaking with the antiquated conventions taught by the Italian academies of art, did much of their painting outdoors in order to capture natural light, shade, and colour. This practice relates the Macchiaioli to t...
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group of 19th-century Florentine and Neopolitan painters who reacted against the rule-bound Italian academies of art and looked to nature for ... [1 related articles]
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Group of Italian painters active from the 1850s to the 1880s. Their works, which are mostly landscapes, are characterized by sharp tonal contrasts and by...
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Group of Italian impressionist painters who used a technique of 'spots' (macchie) of colour. The school came into being in Florence between 1857 and 1867; some of its most important exponents were Giovanni Fattori, Telemaco Signorini and Silvestro Lega.
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