The Sky over Saint Mark’s by Anselmo Bucci

After his initial academic training in Brera, Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955) moved to Paris, where he exhibited at a very young age, in 1907. In the French capital he came into contact with other artists such as Severini, Modigliani, Picasso and Apollinaire. At the outbreak of World War I, the painter enlisted in the “Cyclists Battalion” together with some Futurist painters, such as Umberto Boccioni. This painting relates to the war period in which Bucci was in Venice, between 1917 and 1918, and his artistic production became an actual personal pictorial diary that he himself defined as “a bundle of immature, candid and tumultuous impressions” that oscillated stylistically between Realism and Postimpressionism, between Expressionism and Academic art.