Giovanni Battista Torriglia

Background

Giovanni Battista Torriglia was born in 1858.

Education

Giovanni Battista Torriglia first took his studies at the Language Academy between 1875 and 1882. He later studied in Florence, befriended with the artist Nicolo Barabino (1832-1891), and at that time he was concentrating very much on religious paintings.

Career

In 1901 Torriglia settled in Tuscany for a number of years with a friend and colleague Tito Lessi (1858-1917). It was at this time that he slowly gave up painting religious and historical subjects and started on the subject of romantic interiors, depicting family life in Italy.

His early subjects and his studies of figurative painting certainly stood him in very good stead for what was to become his hallmark of wonderful romantic paintings. The detail Torriglia portrayed in his paintings was second to none and his colours were alive with freshness. Each and every figure he portrayed was an individual character.

Giovanni Battista Torriglia died in 1937.

Achievements

• Torriglia was the winner of the Durazzo grant in 1886.
  
  His paintings hang in many gallery collections throughout the world and there is an example of his in Florence in the Gallery of Modern Art entitled “Le Premierne”.

Works

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  • The Centre Of Attention

  • A New Friend

  • Flirtation

  • Untitled

  • Admist The Florentine Hills

  • Blowing bubbles

  • The fisherman's family

  • First Steps

  • Admiring The Baby

  • In The Sculptor's Studio (Divine Inspiration)

  • Bath Time

  • The Wool Winders

  • Family In An Interior

  • Holding all the Trumps

  • Play ­Time

  • In the artist's studio

  • The See-Saw

  • A Happy Family

  • A Happy Family

  • The spinning wheel

  • Family Games

  • The Web of Life

Connections

Friend:

Nicolo Barabino