Ferruccio Rontini (1893-1964) - La Sieve

Ferruccio Rontini (Vicchio, 1893 – Livorno, 1964)
Title: La Sieve
Oil on faesite, cm. 26.5x42.5
With frame cm. 47x63
Signed on the bottom right
Back bears the stamp of the artist's studio
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Photographed in full sunlight.
Waterfall along the course of the Sieve. The forest is illuminated by light filtered through the vapors of mist. Beautiful.
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He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, later becoming a professor. His initial Macchiaiolo-style will undergo an evolution only starting from the forties.
His painting is imbued with naturalism and mainly seeks landscape themes or scenes of daily life. The countryside is a frequent setting for his paintings, painted en plein air in Maremma or in the Mugello. Very picturesque and sought-after are the markets of Vicchio, where Rontini shows an eighteenth‑century gaze on a reality rudely projected onto daily life. There is no doubt that some of his best works have roots precisely in this environment and unfold over a span of time from the twenties to the thirties, when the artist indicated the year of composition with Roman numerals, as is the case for many Labronican painters of his contemporaries. Among his pupils we recall the Vicchio-born painters Rutilio Muti, Armeno Mattioli and Foresto Marianini.
He was among the founders, in 1920, of the Gruppo Labronico.
Among the exhibitions he participated in, to name a few, the exhibition “Fiorentina Primaverile” of 1922 where he exhibited 3 works, the Milan Biennale of 1925 with the work “La coltratura,” in addition to the exhibitions of the Gruppo Labronico. In October 2018, a show in his honor was inaugurated by the Fondazione Livorno.
A street has been dedicated to the author in Livorno.