Banti-Livorno - A painting of a group of people on a boat

Cristiano Banti (1824–1904) was an Italian genre and landscape painter. He was a leading figure in the Macchiaioli movement of Tuscany. Banti was born into a middle class family in Santa Croce sull'Arno. A scholarship enabled him to study at the Accademia di belle arti di Siena with Francesco Nenci. At this time, he worked in the Neo-Classical style and produced what is perhaps his best-known work, Galileo Facing the Inquisition.