Carlo Sbisà’s florentine period between 1919 and 1928 is the subject of this lecture.
Ten years of training, passed as a student at Academy of Fine Arts before and
then in working and attending at the art exhibitions as a painter. After a research
in school’s archives is now possible to run over his training in etching under Celestino
Celestini and Emilio Mazzoni Zarini togheter with his friendship with
the young painter Giannino Marchig. Since 1919 to 1923 Sbisà and Marchig were
very close and worked togheter at the same subjects and often with the same
model. In 1925 an important changing starts in Sbisà’s vision of art; this changing
is visible in two paintings of franciscan subjects in which composition and
light begins to be more geometrical and bright like in ancient italian painting.
Talk’s hypothesis for this change is Sibsa’s close relationship with the painters
Bruno Bramanti and Giovanni Colacicchi, that, in a sort of “after Soffici generation”,
were protagonists, through their action in “Solaria” review, of this new attention
on 15th century painting.
