Emilio Gola (1851–1923) was an Italian painter.

Biography

Born in

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, then part of the

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, into a noble family, Gola was encouraged to develop his interest in art in his adolescence by his father, a dilettante painter. He graduated in industrial engineering from the Milan Polytechnic in 1873 and devoted himself to painting under the guidance of

Sebastiano De Albertis Sebastiano De Albertis (Milan, 14 January 1828 – 29 November 1897) was an Italian painter. Biography De Albertis worked in the studios of the history painters Domenico and Gerolamo Induno and Roberto Focosi while studying at the Brera Academ ...

. His training also involved frequent trips to

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and the

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. He made his debut at the 1879 Exposition of Fine Arts at the

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and afterwards participated regularly in national exhibitions, but obtained his greatest official recognition at the European level. By the 1880s he was an esteemed portrait who depicted women of the Milanese nobility in their fashionable, worldly dimension but with a vigorously naturalistic approach. His portraits were accompanied by a rich repertoire of views of Milan and the countryside of

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in bright colours that were to constitute his stylistic hallmark. Active in the region of

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and

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, he focused in his late period on seascapes distinguished by great formal synthesis and expressive intensity. One of his pupils was

Alberto Malaspina (painter) Alberto Malaspina (1853 – 1903) was an Italian painter, depicting landscapes and seascapes. Biography He was born in Pisa and died in Milan. In 1884 at Milan, he exhibited: ''Bogliasco, nella riviera di Levante'', and ''Nervi''. His pain ...

(1853–1903).Istituto Matteucci
biography.

References

* Elena Lissoni
Emilio Gola
online catalogu
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