Born to an old Tuscan family, Kienerk began to study drawing and sculpture with the master Adriano Cecioni. At the age of only 17, he had the opportunity to show his works at the Florentine Promotrice show for new talent. When his teacher Cecioni died unexpectedly in 1886, Kienerk worked with Telemaco Signorini […]
Achille Lega trained at a very early age in Florence basing his style on late Macchioli artists and around 1914 he studied in the atelier of Lodovico Tommasi. When he left the Accademia di Belle Arti, he became involved in the magazine “Lacerba” and, in 1916, he joined the Futurist movement and started to frequent the Giubbe Rosse caffé […]
Silvestro Lega who was born in the Romagna, went to Florence in 1843 and studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti with Giuseppe Bezzuoli. From 1844 he studied at the studio of Luigi Mussini and together with other students from the Academy, took part in the 1948 projects. Lega’s early works are typical of conventional Academy style […]
Moses Levy spent his first years of study at an Italian school in Tunis, after which the Levy family moved to Italy due to his mother’s frail health. In 1900, Levy enrolled in the Lucca Institute of Art, where Lorenzo Viani was one of his classmates. In Florence, they were often to be found together at the Academy of Fine Arts […]
Luigi Levi (alias Ulvi Liegi) was born in Leghorn into a well-off Jewish family. He first studied art with Carlo Markò and Luigi Corsi. At the beginning of the 80’s he moved to Florence in order to continue studying at the Academy. He became the friend and admirer of Telemaco Signorini and, later, of Giovanni Fattori, he was a visitor at Tommasi’s home […]
Born into a well-off family of Welsh origin, he started studying commerce but soon abandoned his studies. From 1894 to 1899 he studied in Leghorn in the studio of Guglielmo Micheli, a pupil of Fattori, alongside Modigliani, Romiti, Martinelli and Ghiglia. What he learned from Fattori and perfected in Florence where Lloyd moved […]
Left fatherless when he was only 6, Lomi was entrusted to the care of a peasant family living in Ardenza, in the province of Livorno. His love of nature and animals comes from his years in the country. As a young man, he was forced to work to support himself, and despite his passion for drawing, was not able to attend art school […]
Born in Pisa, Guglielmo Amedeo Lori went to the grammar school there and, in 1887, enrolled at the “Istituto di Belle Arti di Lucca”. Between 1898 and 1899, with Antonio Discovolo, he spent a period at Giacomo Puccini’s house at Torre del Lago, where he met Ferruccio Pagni and Francesco Fanelli, who were founders together […]
Giorgio Lucchesi was born in Lucca in 1855. He studied at the Accademia di Belle arti di Lucca, where he was a pupil of Norfini. His career took off mainly in his hometown. At first he was attracted to subjects concerning landscapes and genre painting. Later he was fond of still life painting, perfecting his technique until it became […]
Ugo Manaresi was born in Ravenna in 1851. He studied at the Accademia Navale di Livorno (Naval Academy of Leghorn), he was awarded the long course Captain’s diploma and for a few years was also a teacher at the same academy. His artistic training was mainly as a self-taught artist only studying […]
