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Plinio Nomellini (1866–1943) was an Italian painter.

Biography

Nomellini was born in Livorno in 1866. In 1885 he enrolled at the

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, where he studied under

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and formed friendships with

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and

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as well as Giuseppe Pellizza some time later. At the 1886 Promotrice of Florence, he exhibited a portrait and a landscape of ''Un uliveto''; at the 1887 Mostra he exhibited ''L'incontro'' and ''Piano di Tombolo''. In 1888, he exhibited a ''Portrait of Nina Van Zandt'' and ''Il fieno''. At the Mostra held at the Società d'Incoraggiamento of Florence he displayed the following paintings: ''Al sole''; ''Sciopero''; ''La giornata è finita (The Journey is Finished)''; ''Fiore selvaggio''; ''Foce del Calambrone'', and ''The Summer of San Martino''.''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 330. He took part in the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 and moved to Genoa, where he adopted Divisionism, the following year. He exhibited a piece inspired by the Genoese workers' strikes at the 1st Brera Triennale in 1891 and was arrested on charges of anarchism in 1894. After being tried and acquitted, he became the focal point of a lively artistic set known as the Gruppo d’Albano. The guest of his friend

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from 1902, he took up Symbolism and was involved in the creation of the "Dream Room" at the 7th Venice Biennale in 1907, having taken part in this event uninterruptedly since 1899 as well as the exhibitions of

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and

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. In 1909 participated in the Paris Salon d'Automme with his fellow Tuscans, Llewelyn Lloyd and Benvenuto Benvenuti. He moved to Florence in 1919 and also set up a studio on the island of

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, where he focused on landscape painting, in the following decade. He died in Florence in 1943.

References

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