FREDERIC LEIGHTON ( 1830-1896)
Monte Croce di Muggio (1,799 m - 5902 ft)
Italy
In Monte Croce, watercolour, The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
The Mountain
The Monte Croce di Muggio (1,799 m - 5902 ft) is a mountain in the Bergamo Alps in Italy. It is located east of Lake Como.
Starting points are Mornico (970 m) near Bellano, located southwest of the summit, or Giumello (1,536 m ) in the northeast. A popular climb ( mountain trail ) begins in Mornico and leads over the flank of the Matoch 1,379 m) to Monte Chiara (1,531 m). From there you continue on a flat path to the Rifugio Capanna Vittoria (1,536 m) and then to the summit cross of the Croce di Muggio
The painter
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subject matter. In 1860, he moved to London, where he associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He designed Elizabeth Barrett Browning's tomb for Robert Browning in the English Cemetery, Florence in 1861.
After his death his Barony was extinguished after existing for only a day; this is a record in the Peerage. His house in Holland Park, London has been turned into a museum, the Leighton House Museum. It contains many of his drawings and paintings, as well as some of his former art collection including works by Old Masters and his contemporaries such as a painting dedicated to Leighton by Sir John Everett Millais.2018 - Wandering Vertexes...
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