Piazzale Poggio Imperiale
Federico Andreotti (Florenz 1847 - Florenz 1930)
Lot-No. 53
Oil/wood, 9 x 15 cm, lo. le. sign. F. Andreotti, on the reverse titled. - Poggio Imperiale is one of the magnificent Mansions of the Medici family in the surroundings of Florence. - Italian history, landscape a. figure painter. He was initially taught by the miniature painter A. Tricci, 1861-63 he studied at the Florence academy. Already in 1863 he was awarded a scholarship of the academy to travel Rome. Soon after he was commissioned a painting by the Italian king. He was very successful with his historistic salon paintings. In his small landscape paintings he shows influences of the modernist movement of the macchiaioli. - Mus.: Florenz (Uffizien). - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit.
Federico Andreotti: Piazzale Poggio Imperiale
Federico Andreotti (Florenz 1847 - Florenz 1930)
Piazzale Poggio Imperiale
Lot-No. 53
Oil/wood, 9 x 15 cm, lo. le. sign. F. Andreotti, on the reverse titled. - Poggio Imperiale is one of the magnificent Mansions of the Medici family in the surroundings of Florence. - Italian history, landscape a. figure painter. He was initially taught by the miniature painter A. Tricci, 1861-63 he studied at the Florence academy. Already in 1863 he was awarded a scholarship of the academy to travel Rome. Soon after he was commissioned a painting by the Italian king. He was very successful with his historistic salon paintings. In his small landscape paintings he shows influences of the modernist movement of the macchiaioli. - Mus.: Florenz (Uffizien). - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit.