Antonio Frixone (Genoa 1843-1914) Church of Santa Margherita di Marassi, oil on canvas signed lower left and dated 1906. Width 67 cm, height 105 cm. ... Feeling, drawing, color, chiaroscuro, and exquisite finesse were revitalized and enhanced by him to such an extent that the Ligurian historian of art and customs, Stefano Raibaudi, made the following rather severe judgment: ... he was and always remained a conservative traditionalist academic verist painter, a slave to a barren, cold, photographic realism. His portraits, in fact, were perfect, extremely accurate with an almost exasperating precision and fineness, but they turn out cold, objective, oleographic. ..[L Archivio Liguria. Painters between the 19th and 20th centuries] Every painting in our Gallery is sold accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by an expert of the Court and the Chamber of Commerce of Genoa.
