Lo studio della pittura di battaglia di Gerolamo Induno e Giovanni Fattori attraverso l’estetica del bello ed il brutto
The Study of Painting of the Battle of Gerolamo Induno and Giovanni Fattori by the Aesthetics of Beauty and Ugliness

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to study the relationship between art and the esthetics of the Beautiful and the Ugly, by the analysis of paintings of the masters ofVerismo, such as Gerolamo Induno and Giovanni Fattori. In the meaning of theterms “Beautiful” and “Ugly”, we find that beauty means splendor and charm, while the definition of ugliness refers to something terrible and disgusting. The development of the esthetics of Bello and Brutto from one century to another depends on the vision of the artists, who, thanks to their artistic activities, have provided us with a clear tool to understand their expressive message through the use of their language pictorial. It is therefore possible to reconstruct thehistory of Italian art through the study of esthetics, in which we can say that the Beautiful is opposed to the Ugly. From this dichotomy, cited in all the definitions of Italian artists, we can analyze the idea of esthetics to study Italian Verismo in paintings that include political and military contents in the nineteenth century.

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