Editing Unification of Italy (section)

===Art===
[[File:S. croce, tomba vittorio alfieri.JPG|thumb|upright|Mourning [[Italia turrita]] on the tomb to Vittorio Alfieri by [[Antonio Canova]]]]
In art, this period was characterised by the [[Neoclassicism]] that draws inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of [[Ancient Greece]] or [[Ancient Rome]]. The main Italian sculptor was [[Antonio Canova]] who became famous for his [[marble sculpture]]s that delicately rendered [[nudity|nude]] flesh. The mourning [[Italia turrita]] on the tomb to [[Vittorio Alfieri]] is one of the main works of Risorgimento by Canova. By this time, in sculpture, a veiled woman in the style of the [[Veiled Rebecca]] of Benzoni had become an allegory for [[Italian unification]].<ref name=met>{{cite web |url=https://mymodernmet.com/the-veiled-virgin-sculpture/ |title=Exquisite 19th-Century Sculpture Cloaked in a 'Translucent' Marble Veil |last=Richman-Abdou |first=Kelly |date=27 January 2019 |website=My Modern Met |access-date=1 October 2019 }}</ref>

[[Francesco Hayez]] was another remarkable artist of this period whose works often contain allegories about Italian unification. His most known painting ''[[The Kiss (Hayez)|The Kiss]]'' aims to portray the spirit of the [[Risorgimento]]: the man wears red, white and green, representing the Italian patriots fighting for independence from the [[Austro-Hungarian empire]] while the girl's pale blue dress signifies France, which in 1859 (the year of the painting's creation) made an alliance with the [[The Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861)|Kingdom of Piedmont and Sardinia]] enabling the latter to unify the many states of the Italian peninsula into the new kingdom of Italy. Hayez's three paintings on the ''[[Sicilian Vespers]]'' are an implicit protest against the foreign domination of Italy.

[[Andrea Appiani]], [[Domenico Induno]], and [[Gerolamo Induno]] are also known for their patriotic canvases. The Risorgimento was also represented by works not necessarily linked to Neoclassicism—as in the case of [[Giovanni Fattori]] who was one of the leaders of the group known as the [[Macchiaioli]] and who soon became a leading Italian [[En plein air|plein-airist]], painting landscapes, rural scenes, and military life during the Italian unification.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cronologia.leonardo.it/storia/a1848c.htm|title=Risorgimento – Pensiero e cultura – 1848|publisher=Cronlogia.leonardo.it|access-date=30 September 2014|archive-date=6 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006085909/http://cronologia.leonardo.it/storia/a1848c.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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