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Giovanni Boldini (31 December 1842 – 11 January 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine , he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting.
Giovanni Boldini (Ferrara, 1842 - Paris, 1931) was one of the leading Italian painters of the late 19th century, among the closest to Impressionism among those who worked in Italy.
Giovanni Boldini was an Italian painter best known for his realistic portraits and signature swirling brushstrokes. View Giovanni Boldini’s 979 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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The Artist: Giovanni Boldini is best known for his contributions to the reform of portrait painting in the late nineteenth century. He harmonized the human figure with its surrounding space and used quick, vibrant strokes of paint to capture light, shape, movement, and expression (see <i>Consuelo Vanderbilt</i>, The Met <a href=http://www
Born in Ferrara, Italy in 1842 and trained on the Italian Renaissance masters from childhood with his religious artist-father, Antonio Boldini. He also studied under other accomplished artists, gaining a reputation even at that young age as an accomplished portrait painter.
By the turn of the century Boldini had become the most sought-after portrait painter in Belle Epoque Paris, achieving such success that his reputation rivalled that of his friend Sargent in London. Read the biography of Giovanni Boldini. Discover interesting facts about Giovanni Boldini on artnet.
Giovanni Boldini. 1842 - 1931. Although best known as a painter of society portraits, the Italian-born artist Giovanni Boldini also painted landscapes throughout his long career. On his first visit to Paris in 1867 he met the Impressionist painters, including Degas and Manet.
