Enrico Reycend (

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. Th ...

Kingdom of Sardinia The Kingdom of Sardinia,The name of the state was originally Latin: , or when the kingdom was still considered to include Corsica. In Italian it is , in French , in Sardinian , and in Piedmontese . also referred to as the Kingdom of Savoy-S ...

, November 3, 1855 –

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, February 21, 1928) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes and

vedute A ''veduta'' ( Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''. Origins This genre ...

Biography

He attended the

Accademia Albertina The Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti ("Albertina Academy of Fine Arts") is an institution of higher education in Turin, Italy History In the first half of the seventeenth century, there was a "University of Painters, Sculptors and Architects" ...

under Lorenzo Delleani and

Antonio Fontanesi Antonio Fontanesi (23 February 1818 – 17 April 1882) was an Italian painter who lived in Meiji period Japan between 1876 and 1878. He introduced European oil painting techniques to Japan, and exerted a significant role in the development of m ...

. He traveled to Paris a few times, and was influenced by the circle of

Camille Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875), or simply Camille Corot, is a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast o ...

. In 1877 at Naples, he exhibited: ''In Piemonte''; in 1880 at Turin, ''La quiete''; ''Natura mesta''; in 1881 at Milan, he sent: ''In Ottobre''; ''Sul Canavese''; ''Rive del Pò''; in 1883 at Milan, ''Ritorno dal Pascolo''; ''Lungo il Pò a Turin''; in 1883 to Rome, ''Dintorni di Torino''; and finally in 1884 also to Rome, ''Il Barchetta''; ''Ultime foglie'' and other landscapes painted al vero. In 1885, he sent to Milan and Venice: ''In Ottobre''; ''Greek temple nel Porto dì Genoa''. In 1886 at Milan, he displayed: ''Giornata triste''; ''Studi dal vero''; ''Notte d'autunno''. At the 1887 Mostra of Venice he sent: ''Pomeriggio''; ''Studi dal vero''; ''Fine d'agosto'': ''The Port of Genoa'': in 1888 to Bologna: ''Mattino tra i monti''; ''Rain in the Port of Genoa''; ''Scalo di Ferrovia a Turin''; ''Settembre in montagna''; and ''Sole velato''; and finally in 1889 to Florence, he sent: ''Tra i monti''. Reycend, along with

Davide Calandra Davide Calandra (21 October 1856 – 8 September 1915) was an Italian sculptor and cabinet maker. Biography Davide Calandra was born in Turin into a wealthy family. His father, besides his professional activities of lawyer and hydraulic enginee ...

Leonardo Bistolfi Leonardo Bistolfi (14 March 1859 – 2 September 1933) was an Italian sculptor and an important exponent of Italian Symbolism. Biography Bistolfi was born in Casale Monferrato in Piedmont, north-west Italy, to Giovanni Bistolfi, a sculptor in ...

, Giorgio Ceragioli and

Enrico Thovez Enrico Thovez (10 November 1869 – 16 February 1925) was an Italian artist-polymath best known for his contributions as a poet and literary critic. Biography Enrico Thovez was born in Turin less than ten years after unification. He was his pa ...

founded in 1902 the journal, ''L’arte decorativa moderna'' .Biography cited in the Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea GAM of Turin, from La Nuova enciclopedia dell'arte, Garzanti, 1997.

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