Cesare Maggi (Rome, January 13, 1881 - Turin, 1961) was an Italian painter. Coming from a family of actors, he is initiated into classical studies by his father.

Still very young (1897) he began attending the studio of the Livorno painter Vittorio Corcos and, later, of Gaetano Esposito in Naples. The debut at the annual Exhibition of the Society of Fine Arts in Florence in 1898 was followed by a brief refresher trip to Paris.

The decisive turning point in Cesare Maggi's artistic activity is impressed by the posthumous exhibition of Giovanni Segantini, set up at the Society of Fine Arts of Milan in 1899, which definitively directs his production towards a landscape painting with a Divisionist imprint. After a short stay in the Engadine, he returned to Milan and finally settled in Turin.

Thanks to the commercial collaboration with Alberto Grubicy until 1913, Maggi quickly imposed himself among the major representatives of the second divisionism in Italy with a repertoire of easy-to-understand mountain landscapes, mainly investigated in the aspects of visual perception of the refraction of light and color, but devoid of the profound spirituality of Segantini's work.

He took part in the main Italian and European exhibitions and in 1912 an entire room of the Venice International Art Exhibition was dedicated to him.

Following a parenthesis dedicated to portraits in the 1910s, the mature production of the artist is oriented towards a greater simplification of the subjects, mostly landscapes.

Since 1936 he has held the chair of painting at the Albertina Academy in Turin.

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