Tranquillo Cremona

His paintings have a windswept style, lacking the linearity of Francesco Hayez and other academics; reminiscent of the Venice School and Titian.

His first major work was a large historic canvas Marco Polo At The Court of Kubla Khan (finished 1863), followed by il Falconieri (1865), and Lovers at the tomb of Juliet.

It was characterized by bohemian attitudes, included poets, writers, musicians and artists, and was infused with a combination of rebellious tendencies.

[3] His painting titled La Melodia (1874, private collection) has a woman at a piano, in an impressionist style, face leaning partially away, challenging us to view the musical composition as the subject of the brushstrokes, instead of persons or dimensional objects.

He died in Milan, at the age of 41, of a sudden intestinal ailment, attributed to intoxication by the oil pigments which he made himself, and which he usually tested by spreading them on the bare skin of his arms.