Silvestro Lega

1826–1895 · Realism

Silvestro Lega was an Italian realist painter. He was one of the leading artists of the Macchiaioli and was also involved with the Mazzini movement.

17 paintings

• Episode of the Second Italian War of Independence. Return of bersaglieri from a reconnaissance (1861)
• Portrait of his brother Ettore as a child (1855)
• The grandmother’s lesson (1880)
• Curiosity (1866)
• A mother looking at her child (1884)
• At the villa in Poggio Piano (1888)
• Doubting Saint Thomas (1850)
• David who calms the cravings of Saul troubled by the evil spirit with the sound of the harp (preparatory sketch) (1852)
• David appeasing with the sound of the harp the yearnings of Saul troubled by the evil spirit (1852)
• Portrait of a young man (1857)
• Almsgiving (1864)
• Almsgiving (II) (1864)
• At the loom (1883)
• The singing of the folk song (1867)
• After Lunch (1868)
• The painter Tommasi painting in the garden (1885)
• The Dying Mazzini (Mazzini morente) (1873)