4to., publisher’s cloth binding, original dust jacket, 286 pp., with 19 b/w + 2 colour illustrations in the text + 107 plates (also included within the pagination), many of which are in colour. An exponent of the Postmacchiaioli movement, Ulvi Liegi (born Luigi Levi; 1858-1939) was an Italian painter from Livorno. He was born into a wealthy Jewish family and spent his formative years in Livorno and then Florence, where he associated with members of the Macchiaioli group, in particular Telemaco Signorini and Giovanni Fattori. He died in 1939 in extreme poverty. Text in Italian.
