Artist: Francesco Lojacono
Date: 1883
Museum: Quirinale Palace (Rome, Italy)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Purchased by the sovereigns of Italy in 1883 in Rome at the Fine Arts Exhibition for the Savoy collections,it was assigned to the Royal Villa of Monza. In 1915 it was transferred to the Quirinal Palace. The great canvas ofsubject of the Risorgimento - as the alternative title indicates The return of the conscript - is dominated byreverberating brightness created by the immense light blue of the background. The work, for which Lojacono hadthe honor of commander of the Crown of Italy was greatly appreciated by critics, so much so that he camecoined the epithet of
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