#cecioni

[david-rainefan]

Actual footage of me if I grew up on a farm and had to kill my friend for Dinner! #farmfresh #farmtotable Bronze by #cecioni (at Philadelphia Museum of Art)

[italianartsociety]

On this day in 1836, Tuscan artist Adriano Cecioni was born in Fontebuona. Part of the macchiaioli group, Cecioni studied and worked in Florence, Naples, Paris, and London, where he was employed as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair. He died in Florence at the age of 49.

For more on Cecioni see: Philip Ward-Jackson. "Cecioni, Adriano." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. [http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T015080].

[mindsigh-blog]

Adriano Cecioni, "Dog Defecating," 1880