Artist Gaetano Chierici ✩✩✩✩ Italian Artist

( Gaetano Chierici , July 1, 1838, Reggio Emilia - 1920, Reggio Emilia) - Italian painter, one of those artists who managed to perfectly depict the life of the common people of Italy. Transferring the life of ordinary workers and their children in all its colors and shades to his canvases, the artist left a magnificent gallery of paintings, which is the clearest evidence of that distant time.

Gaetano Chierici was born in the small town of Reggio Emilia, whose inhabitants were mostly peasants engaged in agriculture. The artist’s life is inextricably linked with this picturesque land, quiet and frankly beautiful. Only eight years, the artist had a chance to live away from his native places in Florence, when he studied artistic skill. Having successfully mastered the craft, he returned to his native place, where he lived until the end of his days.

His first creations were devoted to the magnificent landscapes of this wonderful land. The sprawling endless fields, flowering green meadows for pastures and the boundless blue sky were painted by the artist to the smallest detail and led the viewer to amazement.

However, the greatest popularity and fame during the life of the artist was brought not by picturesque landscapes, but by everyday painting. All subsequent creative activities of Cierici was associated with the depiction of everyday scenes from the life of peasants, or rather, their children: from infants to adolescents.

The artist liked to watch the little inhabitants of his native city, their habits, games and work, to which they were accustomed from early childhood. With trepidation, he wrote children working in the field along with adults, caring for livestock, showing them at home, as well as playing with peers in their free time.

Gaetano portrayed both children and adults cheerful and happy, despite the poverty and hardships of their lives. That is why this sparkling positive, masterfully displayed on his canvases, so attracted and continues to attract, like a century and a half ago, the looks of an admiring public to his creations.

The subtle instinct, artistic vigilance of the master helped him in creating picturesque masterpieces. The master painted his paintings very skillfully and believably, filling them not only with positive, and sometimes with good humor.

Soon the fame of the brilliant artist and his stunning work spread throughout Europe. During his creative career, Gaetano presented his creations to the public in Italy, Milan, Parma, Florence, Paris and Berlin, as well as in the United States. For four years in a row, the painting of a talented Italian was displayed with incredible success at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

The cost of paintings depicting peasant children sold at well-known auctions in Europe, during the lifetime of the master was so high that he was quite a wealthy man.

The connoisseurs of painting were touched to the depths of their hearts by the ingenuous world of childhood in the Italian countryside and the skill with which the artist embodied it on his canvases. He was a virtuoso in creating genre scenes with the smallest details of a simple peasant life.