LUIGI ARCHINTI (Milan, 1825 - 1902) Flora, 1859 Oil on canvas 62x46 cm Signed and dated lower left "L.Archinti P. 1859" In the rare pictorial production of Luigi Archinti, writer, novelist and art critic, yes shows an excellent talent, not simply pursued for different interests. Active militarily as an Italian soldier in the most important campaigns of the mid-nineteenth century, in the 1940s he was a traveler in France, Holland and England; the latter must evidently be the pictorial rendering of the work Flora, of evident and simple Pre-Raphaelite origin. The reference to the Windswept_by_John_William_Waterhouse