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Galileo Chini

Galileo Chini (1873 - 1956) was active/lived in Italy, Thailand.  Galileo Chini is known for Nude figure, landscape and still life painting, ceramics, decorative art.

After he finished elementary school, Galileo Chini attended art school.  When his father died, Chini began an apprenticeship with an uncle who was a restorer, at the same time enrolling in the Free School for Drawing Nudes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in 1890. There he had the opportunity to get to know Plinio Nomellini and Telemaco Signorini. Upon his uncle's death, Chini took over the family business and obtained several contracts from the Sovrintendenza.

In 1896, the Marquis Ginori's historic Florentine factory, Doccia, was sold to Milanese industrialist Richard; in the same year Chini, together with four of his friends, lay the foundation for a small ceramic factory, which they named "Ceramic Art".  Despite the small factory's restricted capacity, the pieces that Chini's group made were of extraordinary quality and caused a profound change in Italian production, giving a new look to the national majolica.  Their ceramics were distributed widely, spr   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2771 characters.]  Artist bio

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