Chronology
January 15, 1858 Giovanni Battista Emanuele Maria Segatini is born at Arco in Trentino, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
1865 His mother dies. His father leaves Giovanni under the care of Irene, his second child from a previous marriage
1865 His father dies. Unable to get Austrian or Italian citizenship, he remains stateless for the rest of his life
1874 Attends classes at the Brera Academy
1879 His first major painting, The Chancel of Sant Antonio, is noticed for its powerful quality, and acquired by Milan's Società per le Belle Arti. That work attracts the attention of painter and gallery owner Vittore Grubicy de Dragon, who become his advisor, dealer and his life-long financial supporter
1880 Meets Luigia Pierina Bugatti (1862–1938), known as "Bice", and they begin a life-long romance. He and Bice move to Pusiano and soon thereafter to the village of Carella
1883 Segantini signs a contract that bound him permanently to Grubicy's organisation
1886 The family moves to Savognin, GraubZnden. Encouraged by Grubicy, gradually begin to adopt the divisionist technique, initially in a number of experimental works and then wholeheartedly
1886 to 1888 His fame spread following the promotional activities conducted by the Grubicy brothers, who present him at the Italian Exhibition in London in 1888
1889 Paints his first symbolic works, a trend that would later become fully-fledged allegory following the examples of northern Europe
1890 Exhibits at the Salon des XX in Brussels
1894 He is forced to leave Savognino and move to Maloja in the Engadine region of Switzerland
1895 At the first Venice Biennale, Segantini is awarded the Prize of the Italian State for his painting Return to the Homeland
1896 onwards Begins spending the winters at Soglio in the Val Bregaglia and also stays in Milan for a period
1897 Segantini is commissioned by a group of local hotels to build a huge panorama of the Engadin valley to be shown in a specially built round hall at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris
September 28, 1899 Dies in Shafberg ob Pontresina, Engadine from an attack of peritonitis
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