Giovanni Segantini.MUSEO D'ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA A leading Italian Post-Impressionist, Giovanni Segantini Giovanni Segantini (January 15, 1858 - September 28, 1899) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born at Arco in the Trentino. His mother, who died in 1863, came from an old mountain family. (1858-1899) was part of the movement known as Divisionism divisionism: see postimpressionism. . During the final decade of the last century, he produced extraordinary landscape paintings, for the most part dedicated to the mountains of Engadine, canvases in which nature is invested with a profound spirituality. Segantini's luminous color accentuates the allegorical character of his compositions and prepared the way for his late foray into Verb 1. foray into - enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly" raid encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, invade - to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my Symbolist sym·bol·ist n. 1. One who uses symbols or symbolism. 2. a. One who interprets or represents conditions or truths by the use of symbols or symbolism. b. territory. On the centenary of his death, Gabriella Belli, director of the museum, and Segantini scholar Annie Paule Quinsac bring together seven important large-scale paintings and some hundred related works on paper. Dec. 3, 1999-Mar. 19, 2000. Translated from Italian by Marguerite Shore. |
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