Norma Broude’s monograph on this group highlights the influence of Walter Scott and describes their dissatisfaction with the Florentine Academy. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this mid-19th century Italian group named for their “patchy” landscapes and street scenes. Though their work anticipated Impressionism, this group painted indoors after making plein air sketches.
ANSWER: Macchiaioli (“mock-yah-YO-lee”) [or movimento macchiaiolo]
[10e] The Macchiaioli championed this proto-Impressionist school of landscape painting that included Charles-François Daubigny and Jean-François Millet.
ANSWER: Barbizon School
[10m] This artist befriended the Macchiaioli and painted their critic Diego Martelli. The cover of Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age of Capital often features a painting by this artist set at his uncle’s office, where his brother reads a newspaper.
ANSWER: Edgar Degas (That painting is The Cotton Exchange in New Orleans.)
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