In 1983, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome held an exhibition of works by the painter Armando Spadini, as a celebration of the centenary of his birth. This exhibition helped to spread the fame of the artist, and did much to promote Italian art between 1915 and 1924. In 1924, slightly before his death, he exhibited about fifty of his works at the "XIV Biennale" in Venice. Spadini was born in Florence in 1883 and his mother was from Poggio a Caiano (Prato). He started painting, following the style of "Macchiaioli", and was one of the first Italians to be inspired by the French Impressionism of the great Renoir. At the Academy of Fine Arts, where he was in the same class as Ardengo Soffici, Giovanni Costetti and Oscar Ghiglia, he met Giovanni Fattori. In 1910 he won a free stay in Rome where he began his sketches and drawings in the open air. During these years he was painting a lot (without having exhibited anything), but he was having economical difficulties. His first exhibition was at the "Casina Valadier" in Rome. Even though he was studying in the Academy in Florence, he always considered himself a pupil of Giovanni Fattori, and kept some aspects from the style of his ideal teacher. His untimely death did not give him the time to succeed. It was only later (after the success of the "Biennale" in Venice) that his importance was understood, and his works had been shown and studied. He died in Rome in 1925. His body rests in the cemetery in Poggio a Caiano. In 1995 (celebrating seventy years since his death), the Poggio a Caiano Town Hall organised an exhibition of his works in the beautiful Villa Medicea.