Except for a six-month period in 1864 when Agostino returned to Trentino, Segantini spent his early years with his mother, who experienced severe depression due to the death of Lodovico. During the first seven years of his life his father, who was a tradesman, traveled extensively while looking for work. His older brother, Lodovico, died in a fire the year Giovanni was born. He was the second child of Agostino Segatini (1802–1866) and Margherita de Giradi (1828–1865). He later changed his family name by adding another "n" after the "a". Giovanni Battista Emanuele Maria Segatini was born at Arco in Trentino, which was then part of the County of Tyrol in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was active in Switzerland during the last period of his life. In later life he combined a Divisionist painting style with Symbolist images of nature. He was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century, and his paintings were collected by major museums. Giovanni Segantini (15 January 1858 – 28 September 1899) was an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps.
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