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Cristiano Banti (January 4 1824 – 1904) was an Italian painter a member of the Tuscan painters of the Macchiaioli movement. He was born in Santa Croce sull’Arno and resided in Florence. He first studied in Siena under Francesco Nenci. Among his first works was Galileo before the Court of the Inquisition. He soon abandoned this first style of historical paintings and dedicated himself to realistic genre scenes.
