曼奇尼出生在罗马作为一个艺术家,早熟的能力。十二岁时,他被承认的美术学院在那不勒斯,在那里他学习了多梅尼科Morelli(1823 - 1901),一个画家谁喜欢戏剧性的历史场景明暗对比的和充满活力的笔法,菲利波Palizzi。曼奇尼发展迅速在他们的指导下,1872年,他表现出的两幅画巴黎沙龙.

曼奇尼在写实主义运动的前沿工作,一个土著意大利应对19世纪的现实主义美学。他通常的主题包括穷人的孩子,少年马戏团演员和音乐家,他观察到那不勒斯的街道上。年轻的杂技演员的肖像Il江湖医生(1877 - 78)捕获的脆弱性贫困的男孩童年花娱乐行人人群。

在巴黎在1870年代,曼奇尼了印象派画家埃德加德加和爱德华。马奈。他成为了朋友约翰。辛格。萨金特,他曾宣布他是活着的最伟大的画家。成熟的作品表现出了引人注目的调色板厚涂的颜料技术在画布上,一个大胆的命令的彩笔在纸上。

1881年,曼奇尼禁用精神疾病。他定居在罗马1883年二十年,然后搬到Frascati他在那里一直住到1918年。曼奇尼的生活的这段时期,他往往是贫困,依靠朋友的帮助和艺术品买家才能生存。后第一次世界大战,他的生活状况稳定和他工作达到一个新的水平的宁静。曼奇尼在1930年在罗马去世,安葬在教堂桑蒂索e塞在阿温廷山.

他的画,可怜的学生,在1876年的沙龙,是显示在奥赛博物馆的巴黎。它的现实主义者主题和暗调色板是他早期作品的典型。曼奇尼的画作也可能出现重回国家队的Galleria d e Contemporanea 'Arte现代化在罗马,考古学博物馆Civico-Galleria d 'Arte现代化都灵在意大利,和其他画廊。

第一个展览在美国专门曼奇尼的工作是在费城艺术博物馆,10月20日,2007 - 2007年1月20日。的费城艺术博物馆拥有十五油画和三个彩笔,曼奇尼的礼物纽约艺术品经销商Vance n .乔丹。

Mancini was born in Rome and showed precocious ability as an artist. At the age of twelve, he was admitted to the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples, where he studied under Domenico Morelli (1823–1901), a painter of historical scenes who favored dramatic chiaroscuro and vigorous brushwork, and Filippo Palizzi. Mancini developed quickly under their guidance, and in 1872, he exhibited two paintings at the Paris Salon.

Mancini worked at the forefront of the Verismo movement, an indigenous Italian response to 19th-century Realist aesthetics. His usual subjects included children of the poor, juvenile circus performers, and musicians he observed in the streets of Naples. His portrait of a young acrobat in Il Saltimbanco (1877–78) captures the fragility of the boy whose impoverished childhood is spent entertaining pedestrian crowds.

While in Paris in the 1870s, Mancini met the Impressionist painters Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet. He became friends with John Singer Sargent, who famously pronounced him to be the greatest living painter. His mature works show a brightened palette with a striking impasto technique on canvas and a bold command ofpastels on paper.

In 1881, Mancini suffered a disabling mental illness. He settled in Rome in 1883 for twenty years, then moved to Frascati where he lived until 1918. During this period of Mancini's life, he was often destitute and relied on the help of friends and art buyers to survive. After the First World War, his living situation stabilized and he achieved a new level of serenity in his work. Mancini died in Rome in 1930 and buried in the Basilica Santi Bonifacio e Alessio on the Aventine Hill.

His painting,The Poor Schoolboy, exhibited in the Salon of 1876, is displayed in the Musee d'Orsay of Paris. Its realist subject matter and dark palette are typical of his early work. Paintings by Mancini also may be seen in Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, the Museo Civico-Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Turin, and other galleries in Italy.

The first exhibition in the U.S. devoted exclusively to Mancini's work was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 20, 2007 – January 20, 2008. The Philadelphia Art Museum holds fifteen oil paintings and three pastels by Mancini that were a gift of New York City art dealer Vance N. Jordan.