Telemaco Signorini

Telemaco Signorini (August 18, 1835 – February 10, 1901) was an Italian painter associated with the Macchiaioli. Born in Florence, he studied at the Florentine Academy and painted landscapes en plein air. He became a leading figure of the Macchiaioli, who painted outdoors to capture natural light, shade, and color, and also served as their polemicist.

Signorini produced etchings, wrote art criticism, and later taught at the Instituto Superiore di Belle Arti in Florence.

He painted outdoors to capture natural light, shade, and color. His works feature asymmetrical compositions suggesting photographic influence. In his late etchings, he embraced simplifications of shape, atmospheric effects, and flattened space inspired by Japanese art and Whistler.