Edoardo Tofano | Genre / Romantic painter

Edoardo Tofano (Naples, 1838 - Rome, 1920) was an Italian painter.

He painted historic, genre and Orientalist themes.

He began his studies at the Albertina Academy of Turin, but completed studies at the Accademia Clementina of Bologna.

He then returned to Naples where he became a follower of the Realism of Domenico Morelli.

At the age of 23 (1861), he was recruited as an instructor at the Art Institute of Naples, a post he held till 1864.

20th century Art History and Sitemap

Twentieth-century art - and what it became as modern art - began with modernism in the late nineteenth century.

Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism (Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke ("The Bridge") in Germany.

Fauvism in Paris introduced heightened non-representational colour into figurative painting.

Die Brücke strove for emotional Expressionism.

Henri Matisse | Woman on a Terrace, 1907 | Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg