Leg in the stirrup by Giovanni Fattori

Leg in the stirrup by Giovanni Fattori

Curious memories of the Tuscan writer Renato Fucini, related to the work of Fattori over this highly expressive canvas, have been preserved. In the autobiographical notes of the Past: Cases and oddities from my life “the writer without false modesty asserted:” A foot in the stirrup “he created from my submission.

Watching once, as he writes a battle scene with a group of fleeing horsemen, I asked him: “And what if in all these attacks and escapades depict one fallen from a horse with a stuck in the stirrup foot?” He looked at me with he did not know what it was like – when the rider falls and his foot remains in the stirrup, he never saw it. “I explained this to him, he liked the idea, and he immediately painted a picture The work mentioned by Fucini as a battle scene with a group fleeing in the gardeners “- this is, in all probability, the explosion of the flask.

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