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Guido Borgianni (11 June 1914 New York – 2 January 2011 Florence) was an Italian painter. chronicled as having been part of the Macchiaioli movement.


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Biography
Guido Borgianni was born in New York on 11 June 1914 to the Florentine Roberto Borgianni, a leather trader, and Sarah Lothrop Herreshoff (1889–1958). Herreshoff was a daughter John Brown Francis Herreshoff an industrial chemist and chemical company executive. One of her uncles, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (1848–1938), a naval architect and yacht manufacturer from Bristol, Rhode Island, designed, from 1893 to 1920, designed five America's Cup defenders:


 * Vigilant (1893)
 * Defender (1895)
 * Columbia (1899)
 * Reliance (1903)
 * Resolute (1920)

Sarah was also the daughter of Emaline Duval ("Mildred") Lee (1863–1930), who had been married to J.B.F. Herreshoff from 1882 to 1919.

Sara Herreshoff, belonging to one of the richest families in the United States and becoming a legend in the construction of racing boats that also participated and won the America's Cup. Guido was not even a year old when, once his parents' marriage was wrecked, his father brought him back to Florence.

Galileo Chini (1873–1956), a neighbor of his, became aware of Guido Borgianni's extraordinary gifts as a draftsman and painter, who worked to refine that talent. So Borgianni attended the Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of Felice Carena (1879–1966), a severe teacher, but who knew how to appreciate the qualities of the students. In the early part of his life she signed his works with black. Then, when he became a divisionist, he started using red. Among his great admirers were Alessandro Parronchi and Oskar Kokoschka, who was fascinated by Borgianni's paintings during his Florentine stay in 1949. Ardengo Soffici, Bruno Saetti, Curzio Malaparte, Eugenio Montale, Vasco Pratolini, Cesare Zavattini, the screenwriter of Vittorio De Sica, liked very much. and of Italian neorealism, which found him "as beautiful as a Corot". In 1946, he exhibited at the Rome Quadriennale. After marrying Simonetta Avila in 1954, her business was animated by travel: in 1955 in Venice, in 1957 in Paris, from 1958 to 1962 around Italy, in 1964 in Spain, in 1971 in New York and Barbados Islands. In 1950 he obtained an award at the National Fiorino Exhibition in Florence and in 1956 he was appointed Academic of the Academy of Arts of Design in Florence. In 1957 he was awarded the First Prize at the Portrait Exhibition at the Casa di Dante (it) in Florence. At his death, deep condolences were expressed by the president of the Municipal Council of Florence, Eugenio Giani: I remember - says Giani - the beautiful exhibition that, as the Municipality of Florence, we wanted to organize at the Palagio di Parte Guelfa two years ago, when they were the collectors to want to propose with enthusiasm to give worthy recognition to perhaps the last exponent of that great Florentine twentieth century school that found continuity in Borgianni with artists such as Ottone Rosai and Ardengo Soffici. His works can be found in the Gallery of Modern Art at Palazzo Pitti, in the Collection of Self-portraits of the Vasari Corridor and in the Drawings and Prints Collection (it) of the Uffizi in Florence, in the Collection of Modern Art of Pisa, in the Gallery of Modern Art, Bologna, at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Germany) and in many Italian and foreign private collections (in Milan, Turin, Genoa, Florence, Prato, Rome, Naples, Palermo, Athens, Paris, London, New York).

He died in Florence on January 2, 2011 at the age of 95.

Works
Painting for Borgianni was a form of urgency. Once on the Cinquale beach he built a trench and with nails fixed the canvas to the easel in order to paint under a storm of water and wind. Not even Ottone Rosai could get him out of his work.

The artist has painted live all corners of Florence:
 * from the Cascine to the Cestello church,
 * from the Ponte Vecchio to the central market.

In the last moments of his life, being unable to walk around the streets of the city anymore, he had placed his easel in front of the large kitchen window and painted everything that happened in the garden below, while beyond the
 * Arno he glimpsed, depending on the season and therefore of the foliage of the trees,
 * the Torre d'Arnolfo and the Cupolone. The last public appearance took place in the
 * Salone dei Cinquecento, in Palazzo Vecchio, in November, when he received a special recognition for the national prize "Elisabetta e Mariachiara Casini" and the silver plaque of the First Page of the Nation.

He lived in Lungarno Torrigiani (it) with the economic support of the Bacchelli Law, which the President of the Republic recognizes to artists who are in difficulty and who have illustrated Italy with their work.

Obituary

 * Guido's obituary is indexed as having been published in the Bristol Phoenix, February 24, 2011