Cesare Tallone (11 August 1853 – 21 June 1919) was an Italian painter.

Biography

Born in

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, Italy, and after losing his father at the age of ten, Tallone moved with his mother and sisters to

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, where he became a pupil of the decorative artist Pietro Sassi. Some members of the local

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commissioned the first portraits from him and persuaded the City Council to finance his studies. Thanks to this financial aid, Tallone was able to enrol in 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 1872, studying under Raffaele Casnedi, Luigi Riccardi and

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until 1880. His talent was obvious from his very first works and was recognised by

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, who allowed him the use of his own studio near the Academy. An active participant in the lively cultural milieu in Milan and member of the Famiglia Artistica since its foundation in 1873 by Vespasiano Bignami. He won the triennial combined schools of painting competition at the Brera exhibition in 1879, with a historical subject. He reprised this subject for the canvas shown together with the ''Portrait of Luigi Bernasconi'' (Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna) at the "Esposizione di Belle Arti" di Roma in 1883. Tallone often spent time in Rome with

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and

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. His success with public and critics alike was confirmed the following year at the Esposizione Generale Italiana in

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. In 1885, he was appointed teacher of painting at the Carrara Academy, in

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, a position which he also held at the Brera Academy from 1899, succeeding Bertini. During these years he continued to exhibit his works and he became known as a portraitist in intellectual, bourgeois and aristocratic circles. One of the last awards he won was the Principe Umberto Prize in 1908, and an entire room was devoted to his works at the Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia the same year. He died in Milan. In 1921, on the initiative of his friend Bignami, the Brera Academy commemorated him with a posthumous retrospective.

Gallery

File:Tallone-Lyda-Borelli 2.jpg, Portrait of Lida Borelli File:Tallone-busto-borelli 2.jpg, Portrait of Lida Borelli, detail File:Busto-di-giovane-donna.jpg, Bust of a young woman File:Tallone3.jpg, Female nude File:Tallone Figura di ragazza.jpg, Portrait of a girl File:Tallone signora.jpg, Woman with hat File:Tallone-portrait-of-a-young-woman.jpg, Portrait of a young woman File:Tallone-portrait-of-ellade-crespi-colombo.jpg, Portrait of Ellade Crespi Colombo File:Cesare Tallone (1853-1919).jpg, Portrait of a man with hat and glasses File:Cesare Tallone - una mujer joven.jpg, Portrait of a young wife (Treviso) Cesare Tallone - Portrait of Lina Cavalieri - Musei civici - Santa Caterina.jpg , Portrait of Lina Cavalieri File:Half-nude-woman tallone.jpg, Half-nude woman File:Invocazione-irene-tallone.jpg, Inspiration of Irene

References

* Laura Casone
Cesare Tallone
online catalogu
Artgate
by

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