VINEA, Francesco

Italian genreGLOSSARYIn a broad sense, the term is used to mean a particular branch or category of art; landscape and portraiture, for example, are genres of painting, and the essay and the short story are genres of literature. painter. He received his formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence under French historical painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier and with Enrico Pollastrini (1817-1876). After completing his studies, Vinea opened his studio in Florence.

He devoted himself to the genre paintingGLOSSARYThe depiction of scenes from everyday life. Elements of everyday life had long had a role in religious works; pictures in which such elements were the subject of a painting developed in the 16th century with such artists as Pieter Bruegel. Then Carracci and Caravaggio developed genre painting in Italy, but it was in Holland in the 17th century that it became an independent form with its own major achievements, Vermeer being one of its finest exponents. which won him fame among his contemporaries. He also painted female nudes, love scenes, interiors, landscapes, seascapes, rustic themes.

He became a regular exhibitor at the Salons in Paris, the galleries in Italy and London.