The Artist’s Studio

Anatolio Scifoni (Italian, 1841-1884) - The Artist’s Studio (Oil on canvas laid on board) - - Once Scifoni moved to Rome he focused on Neo-Pompeian themes from ancient Greece and Rome. He called his works archeologic painting. He spent months among the silent ruins of Pompei, where he imagined girls in fanciful pursuits, provocative and sensual matrons outside in gardens or orchards, or strolling under elaborate arches, or on cushions in aristocratic and mysterious cubiculi.