Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum
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Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum

Livorno

Any visitor wanting to go on a journey into the world of traditional Maremma and Tyrrhenian crafts, and wanting to experience the atmospheres, colours and environments, must pop into the Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum in Livorno.    

The museum is housed in the prestigious Villa Mambelli, a private nineteenth-century residence which became a museum in 1994. The works exhibited in the villa's room are basically set out as a collection of Livornian and Tuscan art.    

Here, the visitor will come across shoeless peasants, wearing scarves on their heads, bending down to collect olives into wicker baskets, with their tireless, strong hands.  Just a few steps away, in the adjacent exhibition rooms, there are two charcoal burners resting, tired and dirty after a day of hard work, and the rag women are sleeping, resting on the parapet of the Fosso Reale in Livorno, while the Italian cowboys, “butteri”, are guiding the herd while riding their Maremmano-breed horses, and some rope makers are busy creating a hemp rope.