La Zia Erminia (c.1867). Adriano Cecioni (Italian, 1836–1886). La Zia Erminia contributed

La Zia Erminia (c.1867). Adriano Cecioni (Italian, 1836–1886).La Zia Erminia contributed to nationalist discourse concerned with the transformation of the body of the emergent Italy from one of shame to one of honour. Cecioni, a member of the circle of Italian Realist painters known as the Macchiaioli, produced his image of an austere matron during a time in which the conjuring up of pious and heroic references was crucial to the imagining of a cleansed physiognomy for the new nation. -- source link
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