Hayez Paintings
Romanticism
Hayez Paintings 1791
- 1882
Italian Painter, Romanticism
The Kiss, ( Il Bacio )
Oil on canvas
Milan, Brera
OIL PAINTING: The Kiss, ( Il Bacio )
This canvas has quite rightly become one one of the symbols of Italian Romanticism. It sprang from the sentimental melodramatic strand of medieval costume drama that Verdi so beautifully captured in his operas.