| GEROLAMO INDUNO (Milan 1827 - 1890) LANDSCAPE WITH A SMALL CHAPEL Black chalk; 210 x 310 mm. Gerolamo Induno studied at the Accademia di Brera in Milan under Sabatelli and Hayez. He was a versatile genre painter, who, like his older brother Domenico, was inspired by contemporary reality. Both were political activists, committed to a united Italy, and were implicated in the 1848 insurrections. Gerolamo also partecipated in the Crimean War (1854/55) and in 1859 fought in Garibaldi's army. From 1860 he devoted himself almost completely to paintings commemorating and celebrating episodes of 'Risorgimento', creating an iconography of the Italian struggle for independence. |
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