
Medardo Rosso, Cheval qui monte la route (Horse going up the street), n.d. Pencil on paper, mounted on cardboard, 7 7/8 x 4 ½ in (20 x 11.5 cm). Museo Medardo Rosso, Barzio. Image courtesy of the Center for Modern Italian Art.
At 25 years old, Medardo Rosso (1858–1928) was expelled from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, where he studied sculpture, for punching another student in a heated argument