TITO CONTI

He attended the Florentine Academy in 1855 and made his debut in 1861 at the first National Show with Christopher Columbus after many denials born at home, in Portugal and in Spain by Ferdinand finally gets the act of departure.

The subjects of historical genre painter remained faithful to the presenting 1865.1866 Florentine promoters and 1868 works inspired by the life of Dante. After 1870, the interests of the painter turned more towards genre painting (The Kalends of May in Florence, exhibited in Turin in 1868), but it was mainly with the portraits that he obtained an authoritative reputation, at least in the Tuscan area (R. William Spranger, Florence, Palazzo Pitti Modern Art Gallery).

Its clientele, composed by high Florentine society, appreciated the refined color ranges and the pearly drafting of his paintings: a pictorial preciosity which was the most popular outcomes in the depiction of the female figure as in Nude woman exposed to Florence in 1907-1908 when, after years of absence from exhibitions, the artist recurred to the public.