Angiolo Tommasi

Angiolo Tommasi (Livorno, 1858 - Torre del Lago Puccini, Lucca, 1923)[1] was an Italian painter, active in the Macchiaioli movement.

Tommasi first studied at the Scuola Comunale di Disegno in his native city under professor Natale Betti and Angiolo Lemmi, and then moved to Florence, where he enrolled for two years in the Academy of Fine Arts under Giuseppe Ciaranfi.

... nor caricature, nor ostentation, nor charlatanism, nor adherence to the in voices that call him to join the crowd, nor looking for cheap tricks, nothing theatrical: the natural observed calmly, without fever and without dismay, by a man sure of himself.

In relation to the painting Contadini che vangano (Ultime vangate), Gubernatis states that:the artist lives the life of its models, because it invokes a feeling of fatigue and of piety, noting that poor people sentenced to work so rude; .... the large canvas by Angiolo Tommasi does not, however the feeling that animates the paintings of Niccolò Cannicci but imposes the tough reality, just posits what the eye sees ... Three and two peasant farmers who excavate the earth, turning their backs to the viewer, which is before a vague expanse of fields, already immersed in the calm evening light, the sun has set, and the smoking chimneys of the nearby village proclaim dinner time .

The five figures have life, movement, energy, the country opens up before you, realistic, ample, spacious, and the eye goes for a long stretch and lose to the last line of the distant horizon.

Returning from Argentina, he moved to Torre del Lago where he was surrounded by the "Club della Bohème", which included artists Giacomo Puccini, Ferruccio Pagni, Francesco Fanelli, Plinio Nomellini, and Raffaello Gambogi.