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Oxen on the banks of the Arno
At the rialto bridge
Sleeping young woman
The page, play with the greyhound
Coffee
Fall
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The morning
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Arabic
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Oxen on the banks of the Arno
At the rialto bridge
Sleeping young woman
The page, play with the greyhound
Coffee
Fall
Boats on the Bosphorus
The morning
Painter
Miss Bell
Shepherdess at the mountain
Return from the hunt
Artillery in Tuscany in Montechiaro greeted by the French wounded in Solferino
Arabic

Oxen on the banks of the Arno

Giovanni Fattori

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Frugone Collections

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Via Capolungo, 9, Genoa

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The painting dates back to the second half of the 1860s, to that moment of Fattori's pictorial production in which the Macchiaioli experience refers to the poetic and human world of the artist. Subjects similar to the one depicted here are repeated with variations until the end of the Eighties: we recall Bovi al carro of 1867, Maremma Toscana of about 1880, up to Rest of about 1887. chromatic spreads placed in perspective sequence: from the brown-green of the pavement and the vegetation in the foreground, within which the white spot of the oxen is included, to the blue of the Arno in the intermediate floor; from the greens of the trees beyond the river, to the gray profile of the mountains that detaches from the clear background of the sky. The landscape is thus created through the combination of chromatic fields, enhanced by a contour line, deliberately superimposed on the color in the central area of the painting. The work appears permeated by an impression of calm and silence, conferred by the extreme chromatic synthesis that orders and constructs the forms.
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Title: Oxen on the banks of the Arno

Author: Giovanni Fattori

Date: 1864

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: Frugone Collections

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