Fausto Vagnetti

Fausto Vagnetti (Anghiari, March 24, 1876 - Roma, 1954) is a representative of Italian painting from the era of transition from the 19th to the 20th century. He emigrated from Tuscany to Rome and started infusing Tuscan brilliance and chromatism into the warm Roman style of painting.

He was born in Anghiari, alta Val Tiberina, and he was to remain strictly tied to Anghiari for the rest of his life.

At the age of seventeen he emigrated to Rome where he became a pupil of painter Filippo Prosperi in Via Ripetta's Institute of Fine Arts.

From 1908 he taught Architectural Draftsmanship at the Engineering Department of the University of Rome. From 1912 he held the chair of "Figura disegnata" (Figure painting) at the Via Ripetta Institute. In the same year he was called to the chair of Perspective and Scenography of the Technical and Industrial Institute of Rome.

In 1922, in the year of its foundation, he held the chair of "Disegno dal vero" (Representation from life) in the Architecture Department of the University of Rome.

He died suddenly in his atelier on September 18, 1954.

An erudite researcher of the laws of sight and a master of drawing, F. Vagnetti painted principally oil and pastel pictures.

After an early period when he flanked the chromatic researches of Emile Claus and Georges Seurat, he experienced a personal pointillism in which the stroke's refinement and chromatic science join to an astonishing depictive capability.

Some of his principal works are monumental landscapes ("Tra le querce" 1915, "Tramonto al Palatino"1924), portraits of a deep psychological sharpness ("Giovanni Giolitti" 1928, only existing portrait of this statesman; "Anima mite" 1923; "L’ingegnere Dino Chiaraviglio" 1938, "La mia Mamma cieca" 1938), large compositions of familiar or social characters ("Moti proletari" 1904, "Dolore antico" 1921, "Sosta dolorosa" 1948).

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