Sunset (Filippini)

painting of Francesco Filippini at Brescia Civic Museum

Sunset (also known as Vespero or Sosta - Gregge - Vespero) is a 19th-century late impressionist painted in oil by Francesco Filippini. It was painted about 1891, in Milano, Italy. Is in the collection of the Civic Museums of Brescia (inv. n. 734).

Sunset
Italian: Vespero
See adjacent text.
ArtistFrancesco Filippini
Year1891
TypeOil on Canvas
Dimensions260 cm × 450 cm (104 in × 177 in)
LocationCivic Museums of Brescia

The work with the title of "Vespero" was the most important of the 1981 Promotional Exhibition in Turin, amid the clamor of the public and visitors the poet Giuseppe Deabate dedicated his verses to him in the catalog of the same Exhibition, confirming that the paintings of Filippini are works of art and poetry.

Description change

The stylistic reference of Filippini in this painting is to his work "Return to the pasture" of 1888. Filippini portrays, at sunset towards versa, those who, after their daily efforts, go to pray in front of an isolated "Santella" which is encountered in the path between work and devotion.

Exhibitions change

  • Promotrice di Torino, 1891 with the title "Vespero"
  • Brescia, 1934, p. 59, n. 356
  • Brescia, 1956, 58, n. 78
  • Brescia, 1979
  • Villa Carcina, 1992, p. 43-45

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Bibliography change

  • Francesco Filippini, un protagonista del Naturalismo, Ed. Skira, 1999
  • Giorgio Nicodemi, "Pittori dell'Ottocento Bresciano", 1956, p. 31
  • Giorgio Nicodemi, 1933
  • E. Somaré, "Brescia", 1934, p. 21
  • E. Pasini, "Primavera", 1935, p. 21
  • S. Pagani, 1955, p. 263
  • G. Panazza, 1964, p. 62
  • L. Anelli, 1984, p. 206-2007, ill. 272-273
  • L. Anelli, 1985, p. 58
  • R. Stradiotti, 1989, p. 192
  • V. Terraroli, 1997, p. 712
  • Catalogo A.M. Comanducci, 1999, p. 228
  • Iconografia pittorica, tav. XXV