The death of the chick (Rotta)

The Death of the Chick (also known as La morte del pulcino) is a 19th-century painted in oil by Antonio Rotta, in 1878, din Venice, Italy, exhibited at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto. Signed lower left: A. Rotta.

 History 
The painting was finished in 1878, and is exhibited at the Museum of modern and contemporary art of Trento and Rovereto in Trento, as one of the most interesting representative works of genre painting.Google Arts and Culture, La morte del Pulcino, Antonio Rotta

 Description 
Rotta has always been interested in the representation of true daily life.  It shows the first moment in which the innocence of children dies. They see death of a chick.

 Related items 
 The Hopeless Case (Rotta)
 The little girl found in Venice (Rotta)

 Notes 

 Bibliography 
 Giuseppe Pavanello, Nico Stringa, "Ottocento veneto: il trionfo del colore", p. 12, Casa dei Carraresi, Ed. Canova, Treviso, Italy, 2004, ISBN 8884091160
 "Emporium, rivista mensile illustrata d'arte", Volume 19, Istituto italiano di arti grafiche, Bergamo, Italy, p. 103, 1904

 Other websites 
The Hopeless Case, Antonio Rotta, The Retarded Child, Museu de Arte de Milwaukee, collection.mam.org | MAM Museum – sito ufficiale

Category:Paintings by Antonio Rotta
Category:1870s paintings