Telemaco Signorini (Florence 1835 - 1901) THE GARDEN OF DIANELLA, VINCI oil on canvas, 17x26 cm signed and dedicated 'Alla Signora Emma Fucini' lower right on the reverse: on canvas signed and dated 'Dianella 1899'. THE GARDEN OF DIANELLA, VINCI oil on canvas, 17x26 cm signed and dedicated 'Alla Signora Emma Fucini' lower right back: on canvas signed and dated 'Dianella 1899'. Provenance Fucini Heirs Collection Exhibitions The Macchiaioli of Renato Fucini, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 1985 Bibliography E. Matucci and P. Barbadori Lande (ed.), critical texts by R. Monti and G. Pampaloni, I Macchiaioli di Renato Fucini, exhibition catalogue (Florence, Palazzo Strozzi), Florence 1985, p. 129 n.111 Dedicated to Emma Fucini, Renato Fucini's wife, this small oil painting by Telemaco Signorini captures Dianella's garden in its springtime bloom. A versatile character, doctor, man of letters, witty connoisseur and frequenter of Florentine and Tuscan artistic circles, Renato Fucini made Dianella, the family villa near Empoli in Vinci, a centre of literary and musical encounters frequented by the most famous painters and musicians of the time. These included Telemaco Signorini, Niccolò Cannicci, Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Luigi Gioli, Arturo Faldi, Mario Puccini, Angiolo Tommasi and Maestro Giacomo Puccini.