Filippo Carcano

A pupil of Francesco Hayez at the Brera Academy in Milan as from 1855, he won the Canonica Prize with a work on a historical subject in 1862, while experimenting in the same period with painting from life.

His interest in themes connected with reality is confirmed in subsequent works presenting scenes of an immediacy that reflects the contemporary developments in the field of the photography.

A leading figure in the school of Lombard Naturalism, he combined scenes of everyday life with numerous landscapes, featuring the surroundings of Lake Maggiore and the Mottarone as from the 1870s and the mountain peaks on the border with Switzerland at the end of the century.

It was in the same period that he took up Symbolism, winning the Prince Umberto Prize at the Milan Triennale of 1897.

[2] The earthen tones and proletarian thematics often recall the works of Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo.