Vincenzo Cabianca

Vincenzo Cabianca (1827–1902) was a Veronese painter and one of the founding members of the Macchiaioli, the mid-nineteenth-century Florentine reform movement that anticipated French Impressionism by adopting plein-air observation and a bold "blot" (macchia) technique of summary tonal handling. Cabianca's Florentine Storytellers (1860) and his sun-drenched Tuscan landscapes were touchstones of the early Macchiaioli aesthetic. He later softened his manner under the influence of his Roman colleagues.

Cabianca painted with strong tonal contrasts, sharply defined patches of light and shadow, and a Mediterranean palette emphasizing whitewashed walls, blue skies, and the golden light of central Italy.

Cabianca was one of the founding Macchiaioli and produced some of the movement's most iconographically distinctive early canvases.