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 FAUSTO MELOTTI
(Rovereto 1901- Milan 1986)
A pupil of Adolfo Wildt at the Brera Academy, Melotti held his first one-man show in 1935 at the ''Milione'' , the Milanese gallery around which the abstract movement revolved in the years between the two wars. The public...
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 FEDERICO E TADDEO ZUCCARI
Federico
(Sant'Angelo in Vado, Urbino,1542/43-Ancona 1609)
Taddeo
(Sant'Angelo in Vado, Urbino,1529 - Ancona 1566)
A perfect partnership linked the Zuccari brothers. It was never to be broken, not even at the death of Taddeo, since Federico inh...
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 FEDERICO ZANDOMENEGHI
(Venice 1841- Paris 1917)
After training at the Venice Academy Zandomeneghi, only 18 at the time, took part in the Expedition of the Thousand. In Florence in 1862 he met the Macchiaioli. In 1874, at the conclusion of a ''Verist'' period, the arti...
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 FELICE CASORATI
(Novara 1886 - Turin1963)
Already present at the Venice Biennale of 1907,the young Casorati showed himself attentive to Central European, and specifically Austrian, figurative tendencies: an extreme care for detail, a preference for a sharp, incis...
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 FILIPPINO LIPPI
(Prato c.1457-Florence 1504)
The son of Fra Filippo and the nun Lucrezia Buti, in Spoleto as a boy with his father, at the latter's death he assisted Fra Diamante in finishing the frescoes in the Duomo. From 1472 in Florence he was "dipintore with...
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 FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI
(Florence 1377 - 1446)
Goldsmith, sculptor and architect, "Pippo" as Leon Battista Alberti called him, is the dominant figure in early 15th century Florentine art. "He himself", wrote his biographer Manetti, "put in act what the painters now call ...
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 FILIPPO DE PISIS
( Filippo Tibertelli, Ferrara 1869 - Milan 1956)
Within the context of Italian art between the two wars the figure of De Pisis in many ways eccentric: highly cultivated, cosmopolitan, versatile, he showed neither the ambitious extremism nor the sc...
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 FILIPPO LIPPI
(Florence c.1406- Spoleto 1469)
Known for his liaison with Lucrezia Buti, who gave birth to their son Filippino, the artist trained as novice in the Carmine Monastery where he copied Masaccio's frescoes, more interested in them than in studying (r...
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 FRA GALGARIO
(Vittore Ghislandi, Bergamo 1655 - 1743)
His father's pupil, a quadraturist and veduta painter, Fra Galgario was apprenticed first at Bergamo, then at Venice, where he arrived in 1675 to don the habit of a Minimite lay brother. After a return to B...
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 FRANCESCO BORROMINI
(Bissone, September 27,1599 - Rome, August 2, 1667) Among the exponents of the early Roman baroque, the name of Borromini holds a special place for the extravagance of his architecture that is characterized by an avoidance of straight lines in favor ...
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 FRANCESCO CLEMENTE
( Naples 1952 )
''In '68 I was 16 years old. I fell asleep before Luca Giordano, in the morning I looked at the sleeves of records by Jimi Hendrix , Bob Dylan, and the Pink Floyd''. Clemente himself, a Neapolitan who now lives in New York, recalls...
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 FRANCESCO GUARDI
(Venice 1712 - 1793 )
Specialized in painting figures for the compositions of his brother Gianantonio, head of the family shop, Francesco had a career as lengthy as it was relatively obscure. It is uncertain whether his activity as veduta artist d...
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 FRANCESCO HAYEZ
( Venice 1791- Milan 1882)
Venetian by birth, Hayez owed his early training to the years spent in Rome (1809 -17) as protégé of Canova and Leopoldo Cicognara, living on a grant from the Venice Academy. It was in Rome that the young artist emerged,...
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 FRANCESCO SOLIMENA
(known as Abbot Ciccio, Canale di Serino,Avellino, 1657 -Barra, Naples, 1747)
Solimena's career began in his father's shop. The artist's first models, in addition to his father Angelo, were Stanzione and Lanfranco. In Naples between 1689 and 1690,...
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