Tag 19th century art

Giovanni Segantini

Giovanni Segantini

Painter of Alpine Light ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Giovanni Segantini was born in Arco, then part of the Austrian Empire and now in Trentino, in 1858. He died only forty-one years later in the high Alps, but during his…

Francesco Hayez

Francesco Hayez

Romantic Soul of Italy ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Francesco Hayez was born in Venice in 1791 and died in Milan in 1882, after a life that spanned almost the entire nineteenth-century transformation of Italy. He began his career when…