The battle of Gavinana

The battle of Gavinana

This painting, commissioned by Marquis Antonio Visconti d’Aragona, shows an “ideal” vision of the battle of Gavinana. In 1834 Guerrazzi had not yet published “L’assedio di Firenze”, D’Azeglio had not yet seen with his own eyes the small village on the Apennines, and the castle of Gavinana - enlarged by its epos – was thus depicted as a large walled town that has little to do with reality. This artwork was shown at the Brera Exhibition in 1841; it then became property of Stefano Stampa, and the latter left it in his will to the Brera Academy, from where it was finally stored in the Museo Ferrucciano around the end of the 1920s.