Reading (Filippini)

Reading
Italian: La lettura
Artist	Francesco Filippini
Year	1881
Type	Oil on Canvas
Dimensions	150 cm × 170 cm (60 in × 68 in)

Reading (also known as La lettura or Madame Bovary) is a 19th-century late impressionist painted 60 x 68 centimetres in oil by Francesco Filippini. It was painted about 1881, in Milano, Italy.

Umberto Boccioni was inspired by these art work by Filippini painting "The novel of a seamstress (also known as Il romanzo di una cucitrice).

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  Umberto Boccioni, The novel of a seamstress
  1908
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  Umberto Boccioni, La lettura
  1908, Museo Palazzo Arnone
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  Umberto Boccioni, La lettura, 17x12 cm
  1908
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  Umberto Boccioni, Maria Sacchi legge
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  Umberto Boccioni, Reading woman, 42x30.6 cm
  1909
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  Umberto Boccioni, Reading woman, 15x8 cm
  1907
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  Umberto Boccioni, Woman in the garden
  1907
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  Umberto Boccioni, Reading woman, 15x8 cm
  1907

Related pages

• The novel of a seamstress (Boccioni)
• Portrait of the mother (Boccioni)
• Francesco Filippini

Bibliography

• Francesco Filippini, un protagonista del Naturalismo, Ed. Skira, 1999, p. 133
• Gaetano Panazza, 1964, p. 62
• Luciano Anelli, 1984, p. 97
• Renata Stradiotti, 1989, p.192