COMPREHENSIVE INSTITUTE "G. MARITI " MIDDLE SCHOOL Class 3 D FAUGLIA (Pisa)
Project "Baltic and Mediterranean seas" Part II
teachers involved
Teresa De Vito - English Language teacher Lorenza Biasci - Art teacher
Castiglioncello is the place that mostly enriched the macchiaioli painters’ creativity. The discovery of the place happened thanks to the art critic Diego Martelli who, in 1861, inherited a vast piece of land around Castigioncello on a hilltop which overlooks the cliff.
La villa di Diego Martelli
Here he started to invite a lot of friends frequent visitors at Michelangelo’s cafe in Florence and where The Macchiaioli usually met. So Diego became the cultural reference point of the moviment and the founder of Castiglioncello School.
Diego Martelli
At the time Castiglioncello was a tiny village of fishermen and farmers, as evidenced in the numerous paintings of the movement and here he decided to live with his friend Giuseppe Abbati.
Diego Martelli sugli scogli con un amico a Castiglioncello
Diego's hospitality allowed Castiglioncello to become home of a vibrant arts center, the revelation of a scenario of pure beauty: the fashion of the resort to the beach was not very widespread and very few buildings altered the nature of the coast.
The macchiaioli concurred depending on their own temperament, to make that figurative experience decisive to start their new research. The works performed in Castiglioncello, with wise splashes of color, accentuate the beauty of the place by the sea.
Giuseppe Abbati, Baia a Caletta, 1863
As reflected in the pictures of great harmony and balance, and suffused with mystery painted by Abbati, or the Sernesi’s clear and solemn visions , or the clear brightness of Borrani’s landscapes, and Fattori‘s force of composition.
During the summers 1864 and 1865 Abbati had given life, with Sernesi and Borrani, to a real artistic collaboration which resulted in works of the highest quality, such as Marina di Castiglioncello by Raphael Sernesi and a refined series of paintings very familiar to Borrani and Abbati, as” Orto a Castiglioncello” by Borrani and “Carro rosso con bovi” by Abbati.
Raffaello Sernesi, Marina di Castigioncello
Odoardo Borrani, Orto a Castiglioncello, 1862 c.c., cm. 18 x 50
Giuseppe Abbati, Carro rosso con bovi
In 1867 Giovanni Fattori went to Castiglioncello.
Here he created one of the most famous paintings of his stay which testifies his friendship with Diego Martelli, is the small portrait of Diego sitting in the shade of the trees.
Away from the town, Castiglioncello, the sky, the sea, the rural world, suggested these admirable artists other splendid works such as "Buoi sulla spiaggia"," Lido con Bovi al pascolo", "Veduta di Castiglioncello "by Abbati; "Pagliai a Castiglioncello", "Scogli e cespugli a Castiglioncello", "La punta del Romito" by Sernesi, "Raccolta del grano a Castiglioncello" ( "Oxen on the beach", "Lido with grazing oxen"," View of Castiglioncello"by Abbati, "Piles of straw in Castiglioncello", "rocks and bushes in Castiglioncello", The top of Romito" by Sernesi, harvest wheat in Castiglioncello.
Giuseppe Abbati , Buoi sulla spiaggia, 1864 , olio su cartone, cm. 28,5x40, Roma, Galleria Arte moderna
Raffaello Sernesi, Pagliai a Castiglioncello, 1866 ca., olio su tavola, cm. 20x51
Odoardo Borrani, Raccolta del grano a Castiglioncello , 1867
G. Fattori, Silvestro Lega che dipinge a Castiglioncello, 1866
La scolarina, 1893, Olio su tela
La punta del Romito veduta da Castiglioncello, Olio su tela, cm. 18x67
Raffaello Sernesi, La punta del Romito veduta da Castiglioncello, Olio su tela, cm. 18x67
Raffaello Sernesi, Paesaggio intorno a Castiglioncello cm. 27x 82
Rework of pupils of 3D Andrea
Rework of pupils of 3D Federico
Rework of pupils of 3D Daniele
Rework of pupils of 3D Anna
Marina al tramonto, 1890-95, Tavola. 19 x 33 cm. Galleria d'Arte Moderna. Firenze. Italia
Rework of pupils of 3D Carolina
Francesco Gioli , Bambina sulla spiaggia olio su cartone, cm 35x50
Rework of pupils of 3D Sara
Francescoi Gioli, Donna sugli scogli, cm. 18 x 32, Collezione privata, Livorno
Rework of pupils of 3D Federica
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