Enrico Rossi (September 8, 1856 in

Naples Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of N ...

– 1916) was an Italian painter. He studied painting at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts of Naples under the direction of professors

Domenico Morelli Domenico Morelli (4 August 182313 August 1901) was an Italians, Italian painter, who mainly produced historical and religious works. Morelli was immensely influential in the arts of the second half of the 19th century, both as director of the Ac ...

and

Filippo Palizzi Filippo Palizzi (16 June 1818, Vasto – 11 September 1899, Naples) was an Italian painter, known for his rural genre scenes with animals, mostly goats. His brothers, Francesco Paolo, Giuseppe and Nicola, also became painters. Biography He was ...

. He won a series of awards for figure paintings at Milan and at the Promotrice of Naples. At Milan he had two

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 ...

subjects. Giulia Masucci was one of his pupils. He also illustrated books including a Collection of Neapolitan Songs by

Salvatore Di Giacomo Salvatore Di Giacomo (12 March 1860 – 5 April 1934) was an Italian poet, songwriter, playwright and fascist, one of the signatories to the Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals. Di Giacomo is credited as being one of those responsible for ...

Archivi Teatro Napoli
.

References

1856 births 1916 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Painters from Naples 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub