EUGENIO ZAMPIGHI Modena 1859 - Maranello 1944 The favourite fairy tale Signed E Zampighi bottom right Oil on canvas, 57X77 cm A highly appreciated painter and photographer, Zampighi carefully and photographically investigates the realistic detail and domestic affections, representing them through scenes of the simple, everyday life of the Emilian people and using the language of genre painting combined with fervid colour modulation. The simple stories told are free of any social and ethical intentions, producing a representation of good feelings, played on the strings of emotions and affections. The results are such that this artist can rightly be counted among the best narrators of Italian rural life.