Ruggero Panerai, a painter of humble origins, is part of the second generation of the Macchiaioli, to whom the themes and the painting technique refer.
From 1877 to 1881 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence where he was a pupil of Giovanni Fattori. It will be Fattori himself who introduced him to naturalistic landscape painting, with particular reference to the Tuscan Maremma. In addition to this subject, Panerai also combines military and animal themes, as well as some works with port or sea life scenes, arriving, in the last years of artistic production, to deal with mythological subjects and also dedicating himself to the illustration of books.

The work Soldati in attendance belongs to the artistic works dedicated to the war events of the last decades of the nineteenth century, and recalls the paintings of Fattori related to the battles of the Risorgimento.

Location: room n. 5