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Gaetano Chierici (1838–1920) was an Italian painter, mainly of

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works.

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He was born in

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, and attended the Reggio Emilia School of Fine Arts in 1850 and 1851. Chierici continued his studies at the academies of

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and

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before completing his training in

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under the guidance of Giulio Cesare Ferrari. His early work was in Italy influenced by the Neo-classicism of his uncle, the artist

Alfonso Chierici Alfonso Chierici (Reggio Emilia, 1816 - Rome, 1873) was an Italian painter, active in a late neoclassical style, mainly in Rome. Biography His nephew Gaetano Chierici was also a painter. From 1828 to 1832, he studied painting under Prospero Min ...

, and of

Adeodato Malatesta Adeodato Malatesta (May 6, 1806 – December 24, 1891) was an Italian painter, trained in a grand Neoclassical style, depicting mostly of sacred and historic subjects. Biography He was born in Modena. His father was a captain in the Granducal arm ...

, but subsequently by the innovations of the Macchiaioli painters. It was in the late 1860s that he took up anecdotal genre painting with domestic interiors, which came to be his field of specialisation. While the artist's participation in the Fine Arts Expositions at the Brera Academy of 1869 marked the beginning of his success with critics and collectors, his work subsequently declined into mechanical repetition of the same subjects. He was the director of the Workers’ School of Drawing in Reggio Emilia from 1882 to 1907 and the city's first Socialist mayor from 1900 to 1902. In the Alfred O. Deshong Collection at the

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Art Gallery, there are two Chierici genre works on display: ''Child Feeding Her Pets'', 1872 and ''The Hasty Pudding'', 1883. File:Surprised!.png, ''Surprised!'' (1888) File:Artgate_Fondazione_Cariplo_-_Chierici_Gaetano,_La_lezione_al_convento.jpg, ''La lezione al convento'', 1864 (

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) File:Child Feeding her Pets (1872) painting by Gaetano Chierici.jpg, ''Child Feeding her Pets'' (1872) File:Hasty Pudding (1883) oil on canvas painting by Gaetano Chierici.jpg, ''Hasty Pudding'' (1883) File:Gaetano Chierici Mutterfreden.jpg, ''Mutterfreuden''

References

* Elena Lissoni
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