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Vittorio Reggianini | Genre painter

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Vittorio Reggianini (1858-1939) was an Italian painter** specialized in genre subjects** including elegant scenes of bourgeois life, figure compositions particularly women's heads and child studies as well as more humble interiors with peasants.
Reggianini combined fantasy with reality, sensuality with sensibility and above all, like many of the Florentine historical genre painters furnished his costume pieces in luxury.




Reggianini was born in Modena, north Italy, in 1853. He studied at the Modena Academy of Fine Arts where he later became a professor.


Like many of his contemporaries, Reggianini migrated south, to Florence, where in 1900 he participated in the Alinari Concorso with a painting entitled Tristis Matris Nati Presaga Finis. Reggianini also exhibited with the Florentine Art Association in 1907/8 and again at the exhibition of 1910/11.
He was affiliated with the Florentine genre painters such as Federico Andreotti (1847-1930)** and Francesco Vinea (1845-1902)** painting similar subjects, using similar props, at times sharing the same model and like them inscribed a number of his works, "Firenze".
Like his Florentine contemporaries, Reggianini executed a variety of costume pieces of the bourgeoisie enjoying the arts. His pictures often include many incidental details. Similar scenes are portrayed by Andreotti** or Joseph Frederic Charles Soulacroix**.































Vittorio Reggianini (Modena 1858 - Roma 1939) è stato un pittore Italiano** di scene di genere.
Ha studiato presso l'Accademia di Belle Arti di Modena sotto A. Simonazzi e G. Cappell, dove in seguito divenne professore.
Nel 1884 vinse il secondo premio Poletti con Sassolo de' Sassoli svela al padre la congiura per sottrarre Modena agli Estensi (Modena, Galleria Poletti), in cui univa istanze veriste al revival medievale.
Nel 1885 si trasferì a Firenze, dove lavorò anche per la galleria Pisani, con una fortunata produzione di genere, apprezzata per la resa quasi miniaturistica di stoffe e arredi.
Predilesse soggetti “impero”, ambientazioni da boudoir (La Lettera, coll. privata) e temi aneddotici alla G. Chierici (Corteggiatore, coll. privata).
La vasta opera ritrattistica si colloca invece nel gusto di una mondana raffinatezza (Anziano signore con berretto, 1880, Modena, Museo Civico), talvolta venata di suggestioni simboliste (Primavera, coll. privata).
Le sue opere comparvero alle mostre di Firenze (1891, Note flebili; 1897, Egli si batte; 1898, Sitio, sitio) e di Genova (1892, Risposta imbarazzante).