Eugenio Scomparini (1 September 1845 – 17 March 1913) was an Italian painter.

Biography

He was born in

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, and initially took lessons there from the engraver

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at the School of Design. His mother, Maria Scomparini, had heralded from Venice. He moved with his friend Antonio Lonza to Venice. In 1863, using a stipend from the city of Trieste, he enrolled at the

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of Venice, where he trained with

Michelangelo Grigoletti Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti (29 August 1801 – 11 February 1870) was an Italian painter, active in a Neoclassical style. Biography Born at Pordenone to a humble family, he was encouraged by an uncle priest who arranged for him to enroll ...

and Pompeo Molmenti. In 1873, he was nominated to the Arts council of the Museo Revoltella, which gave advice on the curation at the Museum. In 1874–77, Scomparini traveled to Rome. He taught from 1887 to 1911 at the industrial School of Trieste. he painted decorations for the Theaters of Trieste,

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, and

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, among others. and for the palazzo Artelli in Trieste. His style recalls Mariano Fortuny and

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. Some his works can be seen in the

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of Trieste.Rivista enciclopedica contemporanea
Editore Francesco Vallardi, Milan, (1913), entry by G Nicodemi, page 159. Among his pupils were

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Piero Lucano Piero is an Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: *Piero Angela (1928–2022), Italian television host * Piero Barucci (born 1933), Italian academic and politician *Piero del Pollaiuolo (c. 1443–1496), Italian painter *Piero ...

Ruggero Rovan Ruggero Rovan (1877 – 3 November 1965) was an Italian sculptor. Rovan created "naturalistic and often very emotional sculptures," and is considered one of the greatest 20th-century sculptors and artists from Trieste. Biography Rovan was born in ...

Marcello Dudovich Marcello Dudovich (21 March 1878 – 31 March 1962) was an Italian painter, illustrator, and poster designer. Together with Leonetto Cappiello, Adolfo Hohenstein, Giovanni Maria Mataloni and Leopoldo Metlicovitz he is considered one of ...

Piero Marussig Pietro Marussig (16 May 1879 – 13 October 1937) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born in Trieste, and initially took lessons there from Eugenio Scomparini. He worked in Trieste from 1898 until 1918, and in Milan from 1919 until 1 ...

Argio Orell Argio Orell (17 September 1884 – 10 January 1942) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was one of the most sought-after Italian portraitists in the 1920s and 1930s. Biography He was born in Trieste on 17 September 1884, the son of Giuseppe an ...

, Vito Timmel,

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, and

Gino Parin Federico Guglielmo Jehuda Pollack, known as Gino Parin (25 August 1876, in Trieste – 9 June 1944, in Bergen-Belsen) was an Italian painter of Jewish ancestry; known primarily for his portraits of women. He was also known as Friedrich Pollak ...

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