I Piccoli Saltimbanchi Suonatori (1877). Antonio Mancini (Italian, 1852-1930). Oil on canvas. M
I Piccoli Saltimbanchi Suonatori (1877). Antonio Mancini (Italian, 1852-1930). Oil on canvas.Mancini worked at the forefront of Verismo movement, an indigenous Italian response to 19th-century Realist aesthetics. His usual subjects included children of the poor, juvenile circus performers, and musicians he observed in the streets of Naples. This portrait of young acrobats exquisitely captures the fragility of the youth whose impoverished childhoods are spent entertaining pedestrian crowds. -- source link
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