Pina Calì
Pina Calì (2 December 1905 – 3 June 1949) was an Italian painter who was born and died in Sicily. Life Calì was born in Casteldaccia, Italy in 1905. She took to painting at the age of fifteen. She did not attend an art college but she received some lessons from the painter Onofrio Tomaselli. By 1926 her paintings were in the "Exhibition of young Sicilian painters" shown locally in Palermo and in Rome. She appeared in another joint exhibition in 1930 and the following year she had her first solo exhibition. The paintings included still life paintings, self portrait paintings and a noted painting of two naked women. In 1937 she married Silvestre Cuffaro, a sculptor and they were an artistic team. Cuffaro was also a professor at Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo. Calì died in 1949 at the age of 43 in Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous regi ...
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Casteldaccia
Casteldaccia (Sicilian: Castiddaccia) is a town of 11,628 inhabitants and comune near the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy, founded by Marquis Longarini.Russo, 1961, p. 260. It is the seat of the Vini Corvo wine producer, and the Tomasello Pasta factory. Origin of the name One hypothesis on the origin of its name is that is comes from the union of two words: ''castello'' (Italian for "castle") and ''accia'' (celery, a plant that used to grow abundantly in the place where now the village stands). Architecture The original town-planning is irregular, characterized by narrow streets and typical houses of the Sicilian tradition. The town center is constituted by the ''Matrice Square'', surrounded by the town church, the façade of the castle of the Duke of Salaparuta, a symbol of the past feudal splendor, as well as a small chapel called ''La chiesetta''. In the late 20th century, Casteldaccia had a chaotic urban development: real estate speculation has irr ...
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Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is in the northwest of the island of Sicily, by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The city was founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians as ("flower"). Palermo then became a possession of Carthage. Two Greek colonies were established, known collectively as ; the Carthaginians used this name on their coins after the 5th centuryBC. As , the town became part of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, Empire for over a thousand years. From 831 to 1072 the city was under History of Islam in southern Italy, Arab rule in the Emirate of Sicily when the city became the capital of Sicily for t ...
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Pina Calì - Donne (1930 Circa)
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