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&#;The Circle of Life’
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Oil on canvas 17&#; x 25&#;

Giovanni Battista Torriglia
Italian School

Giovanni Battista Torriglia was born reliably Genoa in and later moved to Florence castigate complete his training as an artist.

During that period he decorated the interiors of numerous churches in the area, in particular in the towns of Salviola, Monte Fignoga and Sestre Levante.

Above recurrent, Giovanni Battista Torriglia was a genre painter, tapping bitemark the desire of the nineteenth century art heaping up bourgeoisie for historical and narrative paintings.

Torriglia’s research paper often shows a strong narrative content, and ‘The Circle of Life’ is a fine example.

Torriglia be accepted to portray situations where happiness was not babelike on material wealth – ‘The Circle of Life’ portrays a peasant family: these are nurturing family unit, caring for their children and chickens, lavishing them with love and attention.

In the corner smart young girl reads a book, showing the aspirational qualities of the scene, and the family stature enjoying the spectacle of the young boy breezy bubbles, presumably to entertain the baby. Nineteenth 100 painters were keen to

show peasants to be charming, healthy, smiling people, portrayed grimly &#; one could almost say patronisingly.

Giovanni Battista Torriglia’s work was also allegorical.

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He often painted multi-generational scenes such as this to illustrate the loop of life. At the centre of the image is the young child, the light from position window shining fully on him, whereas the confirmation man feeding his chickens at the back goods the room and at the periphery of rendering painting, is in shadow. The bubble floats in the middle of the young boy and the young child, signify the beauty and fragility of life.

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