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Giovanni Boldini is best remembered for recording Parisian society of the Belle Epoque. He was born in Ferrara, Italy in 1842. He began painting in his father's studio, later went to Rome and Florence where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1887 he went to Paris, where he was deeply impressed by the work of Manet. He extended his virtuosity of fashionable portraits and townscapes. In 1869 Boldini arrived in London and became the favorits portraitist (showing 500 of 985 characters). |