The artist Luigi Conconi initially worked as an architect, before his teacher Tranquillo Cremona (1837-1878) motivated him to join the Scapigliatura movement in Milan. As a member of this extravagant circle, Conconi refused the bourgeois lifestyle, in order to devote himself to art with all his senses. His style is influenced by Impressionist features, but his deeper interest was especially directed to the depiction of fantastic and mystical themes and the representation of women. Conconi also worked as an etcher and produced landscapes, marines and fantasy pieces as well as architectural vedute. During his lifetime, Conconi exhibited at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 end the exhibition at the Munich Glass Palace the year after. Works b...