Feeding Archive
Swiss-Italian painter Luigi Chialiva mostly created genre paintings representing the coherence between people and domestic animals. The scenes often depicted people with sheep, cows, goats, hens or some other domestic animals. The special interest in the human-animal relations puts Chialiva apart from other artists. Here his theme repeats itself with an indoor scene. The family is living in an old house with weakening walls. The scene is not from modern times as we can assume it from the clothing and the old-fashioned furniture. The floor is made out of cut and configured stones. Though, when we look at the people and the animals living inside the house, we know that they don’t care about the rickety walls or the simple furniture. They are simply living […]
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