Landscape Painting Attributed to Ludovico Tommasi 19th Century - Forest Landscape

Artist: Ludovico Tommasi (1866-1941)

Born in Livorno in 1866 into a wealthy family sensitive to art, Lodovico Tommasi first studied the violin, but in 1881 the family moved near Florence, hosting the "macchiaiolo" painter Silvestro Lega for the artistic training of his children. Lodovico's strong propensity for painting was refined in this context, without academic teachings. Right from the start, a particular sensitivity for color was evident in Ludovico. In the mid-1990s he frequented Torre del Lago (Lucca) with his brother Angiolo and the circle around Giacomo Puccini, where he became friends with Plinio Nomellini. In the first decade of the 20th century he moved away from the pure description of reality to return landscapes full of lyricism and feeling, in which the brushstroke flakes, the colors become evocative, the human figures interpenetrate with a nature full of symbolic meanings. In the 10s, however, the need to represent reality returned to Tommasi, reconnecting with the "Macchiaioli" tradition, albeit with a personal attention to the contrasts between colors and a sort of musical harmony of tones. His works were exhibited at the main local and national events: in Livorno at the First Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1886 and at subsequent exhibitions; he participated uninterruptedly in the Venice Biennale from 1899 to 1936. Ludovico Tommasi died in Florence in 1941.

Age: 19th Century / 1801 - 1900

19th Century / 1801 - 1900