Luigi Galli – Evil Clinging to Humanity
Luigi Galli (Milan 1820-Rome 1900) Evil Clinging to Humanity Circa 1885 Oil on canvas, 60 × 39 cm Provenance: Rome, private collection Initiated to the plastic neoclassicism of Luigi Sabatelli and aware of the developments of European painting, in particular in France – above all Millet and Courbet – and England – where George Frederic Watts is his main point of reference -, he develops his own particular variation of the romantic symbolist atmosphere, enveloping it in elements that…