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The desire to trace a line connecting present and past and share with the great artists of another age the emotion of a natural or built landscape and the hope of reviving, through their splendid works, the places that were a source of inspiration, life and even comfort for them are what spurred us to propose a visual analogy between the three masterpieces by Telemaco Signorini and Lorenzo Viani and everyday life in those locations today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The itinerary starts near the sheer cliffs of the picturesque village of Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre, where Signorini sojourned time and time again over the course of more than thirty years, beginning in 1860. He always received a warm welcome from the locals, who became the subjects of many of his portraits and the main characters in the accounts recorded in his illustrated diary Riomaggiore (1909). Our next stop is on the slopes of Mounte Amiata, in the town of Piancastagnaio, the tortuous and picturesque main road of which, repeatedly immortalised in Signorini\u2019s paintings, still seems to ring with the chatter of vendors and sound of the hooves of mules laden with goods. Our journey ends in the spa town of Bagni di Lucca, where we can admire the pure geometry of the, now neglected, chapel built by the Russian prince Niccol\u00f2 Demidoff on the model of the Pantheon in Rome for the reception centre for the poor in need of spa cures and where Lorenzo Viani stopped to immortalise the colourful, lively humanity of the destitute, mostly children, gathered around the pronaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A cliff at Riomaggiore immortalised by Telemaco Signorini in a work dating from around 1885 and in a current photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\n \u201cN\u00e9 il pittorico soltanto mi attirava a questo paese e la possibilit\u00e0 di viverci ogni anno meglio; ma la semplice bonomia degli abitanti e la loro sincera affezione, che io trovava ogni volta maggiore fra le persone che vi conosceva, mi facevano tornare in memoria quello che Darwin scriveva a Hoocker. \u2018La rinomanza, gli onori, i piaceri, la ricchezza, tutto ci\u00f2 \u00e8 nulla paragonato all\u2019affezione\u2019\u201d. <\/em>\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Telemaco Signorini, Riomaggiore<\/em>, Florence, 1909, pp. 25-26)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A characteristic street in Piancastagnaio (province of Siena) in a work by Telemaco Signorini from around 1883 and, almost intact, today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\n \u201cCaro Paolo, profitto di questo momento di domenica mattina, aspettando Berto che dalla villa del Pinsuto, deve venir qua a lavorare con me o sotto i castagni fra le rupi di queste valli, o fra le viuzze di questo paese pieno di ragazzi, di ciuchi [\u2026]. Io qua, dal giorno che ci sono arrivato, ho lavorato con molto piacere e speriamo con altrettanto profitto\u201d. <\/em>\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Letter from Piancastagnaio by Telemaco Signorini to his brother Paolo 12\/08\/1883)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Asilo di Bagni di Lucca in Lorenzo Viani’s work from the second half of the 1920s and as it appears today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSi sa che il 3 aprile del 1291 la Societ\u00e0 dei capitani di Corsena pass\u00f2 la propriet\u00e0 del \u2018Bagno caldo\u2019 a tal Puccio di Gallicano [\u2026] con l\u2019obbligo di edificarvi un Ospizio per la cura gratuita delle acque ai poveri e un\u2019alberghiera per i romei. Ho preso stanza nell\u2019alberghiera dei romei aggeggiata, oggi, a \u2018pensione di famiglia\u2019. Gi\u00f9, molto in gi\u00f9, brontola il Camajone occultato da un\u2019amorosa famiglia di piante, dall\u2019abete alpino alla palma. I colli \u2013 \u2018Qui tutto \u00e8 fiamma e azzurro\u2019, come disse Carducci \u2013 coronano l\u2019alberghiera\u201d.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Lorenzo Viani, Il nano e la statua nera<\/em>, Florence, 1943, pp. 344-45)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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