Pointillist alpine landscape, 19th century
19th century, Pointillist painter Alpine Landscape Oil on canvas, 122 x 156 cm The work examined here is characterized by the pointillist technique, based on the scientific principles of the prismatic decomposition of light and the complementarity of colors, experimented and theorized in the last twenty years of XIX century in France, where it assumed the definition of Pointillisme, especially from G. Seraut and P. Signac. In Italy it developed from the last decade and evolved over a rather long period (the official act that sanctions its birth is the exhibition of the painting Le due mothers by Giovanni Segantini at the Milan Triennale): Pelizza da Volpedo, Gaetano Previati were among the greatest esp