Landscape Paintings of Livorno and Surrounding Tuscany by Massimiliano Luschi held in stock.






Massimiliano Luschi is Italian born in Livorno (Tuscany) in 1975, he graduates from the Fine art academy at the age of 21.
Son of another local painter Masaniello Luschi, Massimiliano follows in his father’s foot steps and adopts the style of the local Tuscan painters of the 19th Century “post macchioli” style. Massimiliano paints outdoors, he depicts the gently rolling countryside of Siena, inland of Elba and the local Livornese fishermen and farmers in all its four seasons. The light and colour contrasts of his works are elegant, gentle almost poetic, he is able to create a fascinating and tangible pathos with the viewer.
The artist Massimiliano Luschi defines himself as a post-macchiaioli painter.

The Macchiaioli were a group of Italian painters active in Tuscany in the second half of the nineteenth century, who, breaking with the antiquated conventions taught by the Italian academies of art, did much of their painting outdoors in order to capture natural light, shade, and colour.
The movement grew from a small group of artists, many of whom had been revolutionaries in the uprisings of 1848.
These idealistic young men, dissatisfied with the art of the academies, shared a wish to reinvigorate Italian art by emulating the bold tonal structure they admired in such old masters as Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Tintoretto. on in the paintings of their French contemporaries of the Barbizon school.
They believed that areas of light and shadow, or "macchie" (literally patches or spots) were the chief components of a work of art.