Alessandro Zezzos (1848, in

Venice Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...

Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a Multinational state, multinational European Great Powers, great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the Habsburg monarchy, realms of the Habsburgs. Duri ...

– 1914, in

Vittorio Veneto Vittorio Veneto is a city and ''comune'' situated in the Province of Treviso, in the region of Veneto, Italy, in the Cardinal direction, northeast of Italy, between the Piave and the Livenza rivers, borders with the following municipalities: Alpa ...

) was an Italian painter of

genre Genre () is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other fo ...

scenes, costume scenes, portraits, and vedute, in watercolors and oils. Glaspalast 1888 158

He studied under Giacomo Favretto, Alessandro Milesi, and

Luigi Nono Luigi Nono (; 29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music. Biography Early years Nono, born in Venice, was a member of a wealthy artistic family; his grandfather was a notable painter. Nono bega ...

at the Academy of Fine Arts in his native Venice. In 1873, he exhibited in Venice: ''Né sposo né figlio'' and ''Scena famigliare''. In 1877 at Paris, ''Les saltimbanques'' and ''Les pigeons de Saint Marc''. He was active as a painter in Venice. Among his watercolors are ''Le rondini'', exhibited at Turin in 1880; ''Una calle'', exhibited at the 1891 Mostra Triennale of the

Brera Academy The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan's main public mu ...

. In 1881 at Milan, displayed the paintings: ''Mercante di ventagli''; ''At the Predica'', ''Half-figure of a Girl''; and ''Popolana''. In 1883 in Rome, exhibited: ''The Lovers''. He painted ''Love Letter'', ''Una fuga nel 1700''; and ''The Dockside of San Marco''. From 1877 to 1878 he sent the following paintings to Paris: ''Pigeons of St Mark'', ''El-Mazrama'' (Mouchoir of the Sultan), ''Los Saltimbanques'', and ''A venetian - A Daughter of the People''. ''Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works''
A Handbook Containing Two thousand and fifty biographical sketches. Fifth edition, By Clara Erskine Clement Waters, Laurence Hutton, Houghton and Mifflin,Bostonand New York, 1889, page 370. He had a retrospective exhibit at the Castello Sforzesco of Milan in 1937.

Umberto Boccioni Umberto Boccioni (; ; 19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his short life, his approach ...

was one of his pupils. Among his colleagues and fellow pupils of Favretto were Bartolomeo Bezzi, Guglielmo Ciardi, Antonio Dal Zotto, Pietro Fragiacomo, Emilio Marsili,

, Augusto Sezanne, and

Ettore Tito Ettore Tito (17 December 1859 – 26 June 1941) was an Italian artist particularly known for his paintings of contemporary life and landscapes in Venice and the surrounding region. He trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Accademia di ...

Notes

References

1848 births 1914 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters 20th-century Italian male artists Painters from Venice Italian vedutisti Italian genre painters Italian costume genre painters 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub