Boldini, Giovanni
Boldini, Giovanni (
b Ferrara, 31 Dec. 1842;
d Paris, 11 Jan. 1931). Italian painter, one of the most renowned society portraitists of his day. He was at his best with portraits of glamorous women;
Sickert referred to his ‘wriggle-and-chiffon’ style. His vivacious brushwork and gift for making his sitters look graceful and poised recall the work of his even more successful contemporary John Singer
Sargent, and like Sargent he had an international career; he worked mainly in Paris, where he settled in 1871, but he travelled widely. Together with another flamboyant portraitist, Antonio Mancini (1852–1930), he was probably the best-known Italian artist at the turn of the century. Apart from portraits, his work includes some excellent street scenes of Paris. There is a Boldini museum in his native Ferrara. As with Sargent, his work went out of favour after his death, being considered merely glossy and superficial. See also
Macchiaioli.
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Mapping the origins of glamour: Giovanni Boldini, Paris and the Belle Epoque.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...little justification, the focus on Giovanni Boldini requires more explanation. An...fashionable society portraits, Boldini is not regarded as an important...it may be argued that precisely Boldini's subjects (society women...
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Old friends in fresh company: the new galleries for European painting at the Metropolitan: the opening of the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries has allowed the Metropolitan Museum to display virtually its entire holdings of 19th- and early-20th-century European paintings. As a result, writes Nancy Ireson, the collection's celebrated masterpieces are shown in revealing new contexts, and a familiar narrative is subtly but firmly readjusted.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...modem times, it is no longer enough to say Giovanni Boldini was "bad'", he suggests. 'Boldini was active, successful, and should be seen...most striking new rooms of the installation, Boldini's Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough...
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Money Chasing Status: A Historic Week
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 5/17/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...scenes by cafe society painters, such as Giovanni Boldini and James Jacques Joseph Tissot, hung...long ago, the contrast would have killed Boldini and Co. This week it most certainly did not. Boldini's 1873 watercolor, ''La Lettre...
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Reviews: Degas and the Italians in Paris Society of Scottish Artists Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition: Master of the moment
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 12/16/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...four of them, Federico Zandomeneghi, Giovanni Boldini, Giuseppe de Nittis and Medardo Rosso...pictures, is hung beside a painting by Boldini of much the same subject. There is no comparison. The Boldini looks flashy. The Degas is a masterpiece...
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Newport in the gilded age. (Newport, Rhode Island)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 4/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...early works by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini. The Garden Bench [ILLUSTRATION FOR PL. I OMITTED] depicts Boldini's model Berthe in an impressionistic...cherished by the Newport elite. Boldini's painting was probably presented...
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Ordinary reality is enormously strange It is his tendency to find mystery in the everyday that sets Degas apart as an artist Art
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/21/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Zandomeneghi, Giuseppe de Nittis, Giovanni Boldini and Medardo Rosso. The first three...akin in spirit. For example, Boldini's 1888 backview of a woman looking...hat, the same umbrella. But in Boldini's hands, the idea of a fashionably...
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STORMIN' NORMAN.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: WWD; 6/6/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Rosenthal's tongue, it sounds as fascinating as cocktail-party gossip. "Did you know Boldini painted Menzel?" he asks provocatively in front of Giovanni Boldini's portrait of German Realist painter Adolphe Menzel. He answers himself by adding...
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Only subvert
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 6/6/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...1905, we might still recognize Picasso's greatness. Elsewhere, an overwrought Giovanni Boldini painting of a Bernini bust in an empty room suggests Boldini was trying to turn himself into Whistler by way of Corinth. The six works by Munch...
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Prophet of glamor
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 5/7/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...somehow more convincing than the excesses of that earlier brilliant flatterer of society women, the painter Giovanni Boldini. Like Boldini, Gruau had a superb sense of composition and both his line and design were breathtaking. His minimalist...
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First Impressionism can be misleading
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 12/5/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...them: Federico Zandomeneghi, Giuseppe De Nittis, Giovanni Boldini and Medardo Rosso. To some extent all four existed...in pastels, De Nittis painted and drew race horses, Boldini was interested in musical and opera scenes. Here we...
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Giovanni Boldini
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Giovanni Boldini , 1842-1931, Italian portrait painter. Having worked in Florence and London, he reached his peak of creativity and success...
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Boldini, Giovanni
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Boldini, Giovanni (1842–1931). Italian painter, one of the most renowned...his work includes some excellent street scenes of Paris. There is a Boldini museum in his native Ferrara. As with Sargent, his work went out of...
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I Macchiaioli
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...art and worked to emphasize painterly immediacy and freshness. Silvestro Lega, Giovanni Fattori, Vito d'Ancona, Giovanni (Nino) Costa, and Giovanni Boldini were among the artists of this school. They were best known for their landscapes...
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Macchiaioli
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...subjects, and portraits as well as landscapes. Leading members included Giovanni Fattori (1825–1908) and Telemaco Signorini (1835–1901). Boldini and de Nittis sympathized with their ideas. The Macchiaioli met with little...
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