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On the formal level, certainly, the Rob Roy sign arrests our attention and plays with our expectations here as audaciously as a collage element in an early twentieth-century cubist composition. What permitted and encouraged
Signorini's experimentation in this remarkably precocious and unprecedented
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manner was unquestionably the experience of photography ... For with his vision conditioned by that experience, he could acceptâas the eye of the camera acceptsâ what artists before him would normally have pruned or screened out of their interpretations of such a scene.
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in 1859, and afterwards painted military scenes which he exhibited in 1860 and 1861. He made his first trip outside Italy in 1861 when he visited
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His presence at exhibitions was frequent and prolific. In 1860, at the SocietĂ Promotrice, he exhibited seven paintings, including
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