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Portrait of Massimo d’Azeglio

Technical Details
  • Title
    Portrait of Massimo d’Azeglio
  • Author
    Francesco Hayez
  • Year
    1864
  • Dimensions
    cm 119 x 93
  • Inventory
    6337
  • Room
    XXXVIII

Based on a photograph taken by celebrated photographer Charles Disderi in 1859, this painting is considered one of the portraits of the Manzoni family and friends because D’Azeglio was Manzoni’s son-in-law, having wed his daughter Giulia. D’Azeglio invented a genre known as “historiated landscape” painting with landscapes studied from life used as settings for episodes from history. He was a novelist but also a politician of standing in the crucial years of the Kingdom of Sardinia and the embryonic Italian state.

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