ANTONIO DONGHI - Italian Neo-Classical Painter

Welcome to “I am Jenny” YouTube channel. This video is an invitation to get to know an Italian painter of scenes of popular life, landscapes, and still-life. We invite you to watch this video until the end, so you will find out interesting things about this extraordinary artist, as well as his roles and effects on the art world. Antonio Donghi was born on March 16, 1897. He was an Italian painter, known for his original bond with Magic Realism. Antonio Donghi’s art provides a balanced chromatic and compositional blend between figures in the foreground and their surroundings. He was born in Rome and studied painting at the Instituto di Belle Arti from 1908 to 1916. After military service in the World War, he studied art in Florence and Venice, soon establishing himself as one of Italy’s leading figures in the neoclassical movement that arose in the 1920s.