Eugenio Zampighi

Eugenio Zampighi (1859-1944)

Eugenio Zampighi , born in 1859 in Modena , and died in 1944 in Maranello , is a painter and photographer Italian , mainly topics such .

Eugenio Zampighi enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Modena , and received the teachings under the direction of Antonio Simonazzi. Very young, and since his first history paintings, he was influenced by the painter Giovanni Modena Muzzioli. After winning the Poletti Prize for Painting in 1880, with his entry, A Wounded Retiree in the Flavian Amphitheater, he had the opportunity to continue his studies first in Rome and then in Florence where he finally installed in 1884. In the 1880s, he began to produce a repertoire of genre scenes, which enjoyed an extraordinary success in the art market and brought him international commissions, influenced by the style of Gaetano Chierici and by the Florentine school of Macchiaioli . He worked mainly in these cities later in his career.

His intense work as a photographer was mostly oriented to his painting and was mainly held in his studio using models in peasant costume or the dress of the common people . After taking these photographs, the artist used them to create a joyous and idyllic image of rural Italian life, devoid of any social criticism, so appreciated by foreign tourists that it led him to produce a series of the same stereotypes latecomers to the first decades of the xx th century.