Nude Study (Filippini)
painting by Francesco Filippini
Nude Study (also known as Studio di nudo virile) is a 19th-century late impressionist painted in oil by Francesco Filippini. It was painted about 1876, in Brescia, Italy. Is in the collection of the Civic Museums of Brescia (inv. n. 988).
| Nude Study | |
|---|---|
| Italian: Studio di nudo virile | |
.jpg) | |
| Artist | Francesco Filippini |
| Year | 1876 |
| Type | Oil on Canvas |
| Dimensions | 140 cm × 100 cm (55 in × 41 in) |
| Location | Civic Museums of Brescia |
Description
changeThe work is part of six other nude studies, preserved in the Civic Museums of Brescia and carried out by Filippini, during his transition from the Brescia drawing school to the Brera Academy in Milan.
This virile study was carried out by Filippini who had to make a copy of a painting from "Academia" to participate in the competition for the prize of the legate Brozzoni, which he needed to move to the Brera Academy in Milan.
Prize
change- Legato Brozzoni, 19 september 1876
Related pages
changeBibliography
change- Francesco Filippini, un protagonista del Naturalismo, Ed. Skira, 1999
- Gaetano Panazza, 1964, p. 62
- Luciano Anelli, 1984, p. 86
- Renata Stradiotti, 1989, p. 192