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 AFRO
AFRO ( Oreste Basaldella, Udine 1912 - Zurich 1976 )
The third of three artist brothers- the other two are Dino and Mirko - Afro very early aligned himself with the most innovative trends in Italian art. His neo-cubist apprenticeship took place i ...
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 ALBERTO BURRI
(Citta' di Castello 1915 - Beaulieu 1955 )
A military physician, he was captured by the Americans during World War II. He began to paint in a prison camp in Texas, using whatever supports he could find. Returning to Italy, he settled in Rome, aban...
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 ALBERTO PASINI
(Busseto, Parma, 1826 - Cavoretto, Turin, 1899)
Lithographer and owner of a private atelier of painting in Parma, Pasini moved to Paris in 1851. Having seen the works of Eugéne Fromentin and the Barbizon landscape artists, he painted landscapes ac...
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 ALBERTO SAVINIO
(Andrea de Chirico, Athens 1891- Rome 1952)
Brother of Giorgio de Chirico, he began his career as musician and writer. After a classical education in Greece he lived first in Munich and then, in 1910, in Paris. Here he participated in avant gard...
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 ALESSANDRO ANTONELLI
(Ghemme, Novara, 1798 - Turin 1888)
Trained as architect and engineer at Milan and Turin, Alessandro Antonelli went on to further studies in Rome between 1828 and 1831. Respectful of the structural elements of the classical tradition such as the a...
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 ALESSANDRO MAGNASCO
(known as Il Lissandrino, Genoa 1667 - 1749)
Training while still a boy with his father Stefano, he was in Milan by 1677, collaborating with Filippo Abbiati. He launched a production of genre scenes, which were to make his famous as painter of fig...
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 ALIGHIERO BOETTI
(Turin 1940 - Rome 1994)
Born and trained in Turin before moving to Rome in the early Seventies - in flight from the artistic and cultural milieu of the Piedmont capital, rejecting control and excessive strategy - Boetti was an elusive, complex ar...
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 AMEDEO MODIGLIANI
(Livorno 1884 - Paris 1920)
Modigliani's biography seems to posses all the requisites that a fin de siècle novelist might ask of an artist: born in Livorno, after apprenticeship with a late Macchiaiolo painter he moved to Paris for a brief career....
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 ANDREA APPIANI
(Milan 1754 - 1817)
A cultured artist who moved in intellectual circles - he was a friend of Parini, who starting in 1776 held lessons on history and mythology at the Brera Academy; and of Giuseppe Bossi - Appiani experimented in his youth with th...
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 ANDREA DEL CASTAGNO
(Andrea di Bartolo, Castagno, Mugello,c.1421- Florence 1457)
"Andreino of the hanged men", he was called by the Florentines for having accepted an unrewarding task in 1440: that of painting the rebellious exiles led by Ormanno degli Albizzi hangin...
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 ANDREA DEL SARTO
(Andrea d'Agnolo, Florence 1486-1530)
When Andrea, known as "del Sarto" from the profession of his father Agnolo di Francesco, a tailor, finally opened his own shop in Florence in 1508, Raphael had just left for Rome, leaving him a figurative heri...
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 ANDREA MANTEGNA
(Isola di Carturo, Padua, 1431- Mantua 1506)
When in about 1470 Raphael's father Giovanni Santi listed the finest artistis of the times at the court of Urbino, he placed Mantegna before Leonardo, confirming the great fame accorded this artist in h...
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 ANDREA PALLADIO
(Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, Padua 1508-Maser, Treviso 1580)
"Guided by natural inclination, I turned in youth to the study of Architecture.....". With these words Palladio began the Preface to his treatise entitled The Four Books of Architect...
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 ANDREA POZZO
(Trento 1642- Vienna 1709)
Architect, set designer and theorist of perspective, Andrea Pozzo is one of those Baroque artists who, through the force of their imagination, broke open the ceilings and vaults of churches to let paradise descend. Not b...
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 ANGELO MORBELLI
(Alessandria 1853 - Milan 1919)
After a training at the Brera Academy, Morbelli moved toward Lombard naturalist tendencies. In his first paintings he combined atmospheric observation, freedom of touch and social analysis. Starting from 1890 he exp...
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 ANTONELLO DA MESSINA
(Messina c.1430- 1479)
An artist apparently at a disadvantage due to having been born in a relatively isolated area far from the great Italian art centers of the 15th century, Antonello was in reality highly stimulated by the vivacious, internatio...
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 ANTONIO CANOVA
( Possagno, Treviso, 1757 - Venice 1822)
After an apprenticeship in the Venetian workshop of Giuseppe Bernardi, Canova was in Rome in 1799. A young artist who frequented distinguished intellectual circles - Quatremère de Quincy and Gavin Hamilto...
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 ANTONIO CISERI
(Ronco, Canton Ticino, 1821 - Florence 1891)
Trained at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts and first close to the positions of Bezzuoli, Ciseri later evolved in the direction of a refined Purism. A cultured artist with a wealth of acquaintances amo...
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 ANTONIO MANCINI
(Rome 1852 - 1930)
A pupil of Morelli at the Naples Institute of Fine Arts, Mancini drew from his master's teaching a strong interest in the XVII century Neapolitan tradition. A studio companion of Vincenzo Gemito, he turned to observation of th...
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 ARNOLFO DI CAMBIO
(Colle Val d'Elsa c.1245 - Florence 1302)
A disciple of Nicola Pisano, Arnolfo subtilissimus et ingeniosus magister, as he was called by the Perugians in 1277, owes his immense fame to his work as architect rather then as sculptor. Up to the 19th ...
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 ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
(Rome 1597- Naples c. 1652)
Only in the last few years have the human vicissitudes of Artemisia Gentileschi been know to the public, through novels and films that have made her a figure of great topical interest, a woman capable of courageously ta...
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 ARTURO MARTINI
(Treviso 1889 - Milan 1947)
After training in Munich at the school of the German sculptor Adolf Hildebrand, Martini soon came into contact with the young Italian artists who were promoting a renewal in national art in the years prior to World War ...
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