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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah
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Fabio Borbottoni (1823-1901) was an Italian Painter, mainly of urban scenes of Florence. Most of his paintings focus on architecture that was on the verge of demolition in Florence (during the decade of the 1860s -of Italian unification and statehood), He painted as a social duty to preserve the identity of Florence. He endows a romantic feel within the bare landscapes that are drawn nearly free of people. The human figure in the paintings served as a scale for lay viewers.
Fabio Borbottoni used only earth brown monochrome tones for exterior walls, floors and roads. He has occasionally taken artistic liberty and drawn his own versions of the architecture. He avoided architectural details. As an Artist, he was not a great classicist, but, sincerely achieved the aim of urban documentation. Many of his paintings were used for reconstruction, after the destruction of the Nazis, after 1944.
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