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Cesare Maggi (Rome, 1881 – Turin, 1961) was an Italian painter.


Biography

Born into a family of actors, Maggi embarked on classical studies at his father’s wish but also took up painting at a very early age, first with the Livornese artist
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in 1897 and then with
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in
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. His debut in
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at the Esposizione Annuale della Società di Belle Arti di Firenze in 1898 was followed by a short trip to
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to catch up with the latest developments. The crucial turning point in Maggi’s art came in 1889 with the posthumous show of work 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 ...
held by the Milanese Society of Fine Arts, which prompted a definitive shift to landscape painting of a
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character. After a short stay in the Engadin, he returned to Milan before finally settling in
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. Commercial collaboration with
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until 1913 enabled Maggi to establish himself quickly as one of the leading representatives of the second generation of Divisionist painters in Italy. He painted a repertoire of readily comprehensible mountain landscapes focusing primarily on aspects of the visual perception of the reflection of light and colour but lacking the deep spirituality of Segantini’s work. He took part in the major Italian and European exhibitions and the
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devoted an entire room to his work at the Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte of Venice in 1912. After an interlude devoted to portrait painting in the same decade, the artist’s mature work focused on greater simplification of subject matter, mostly in landscapes. Maggi obtained the chair in painting at the Albertina Academy,
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, in 1936.


References

* Elena Lissoni
Cesare Maggi
online catalogu
Artgate
by
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, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maggi, Cesare 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Italian landscape painters Divisionist painters Academic staff of Accademia Albertina 1881 births 1961 deaths 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists