Costantino Barbella - Return Form The Countryside (1876)

Exhibition: Florence Society of Encouragement of Fine Arts 1876

Costantino Barbella was born in Chieti on 31 January 1852 into a large, poor family of eighteen children.
The artist executed terracottas and bronzes illustrating the Abruzzi epos, with rhetorical accents anticipating Michelangelo's own research. The protagonists of his works are almost always people from Abruzzo, whom the sculptor captures with exact and careful investigation. 

In Il ritorno dalla campagna, exhibited that year at the Società d'incoraggiamento delle Belle Arti in Florence, the artist studies the posture of two peasant women, lost in a happy song. By a sort of ars combinatoria, congenial to him, the figures soon become three.