ADRIANO CECIONI (Italy, 1836-1886).

Bronze sculpture of a boy with a rooster.

Signed ADRIANO CECIONI, Firenze

Dimensions: 24" h.

ADRIANO CECIONI (Italy, 1836-1886).

Italian sculptor, painter, caricaturist, and author Adriano Cecioni died on 23 May 1886 in Florence. He was 49. Born in the Tuscan town of Fontebuona, Cecioni trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence with the sculptor Aristodemo Costoli. Cecioni associated with the so-called macchiaioli, a group of Florentine painters who associated at mid-century and had much in common with the Barbizon school in France.

Cecioni moved to Naples in 1863 and formed what became known as the Scuola di Resina with painters Giuseppe de Nittis, Marco de Gregorio, and Federico Rosano. He also spent time in Paris in 1879 and in London, where he was employed in 1872 as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair. He returned to Italy where he continued to explore scenes of everyday life in his sculpture and paintings. He also wrote numerous articles and essays on contemporary art, which were anthologized after his death.