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3 unusual facts about Antonio Varni


Antonio Varni

He was influenced by the realistic style of landscape of the Macchiaioli.

His painting of Bordello, won a prize established by Prince Oddone in Genoa.

Among his many works: an oil canvas of Una passeggiata; Petrarch induces the painter Lippo Memmi to secretly paint a portrait of Laura; Sappho meditates Suicide; Don Abbondio and the cardinal Borromeo; Victim of Primogeniture, also called Victim of the Cloister because it depicts a young nun in her death bed, dying due to the cloistered life imposed by her family; The sack and massacre of Muslims in a house in Bulgaria; and The island of Favignana.



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