Filippo Carcano (25 September 1840 – 19 January 1914) was an Italian painter.

Biography

Carcano was born in

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

, Italy. A pupil of

Francesco Hayez Francesco Hayez (; 10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and ...

at 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 ...

as from 1855, he won the Canonica Prize with a work on a historical subject in 1862, while experimenting in the same period with painting from life. Carcano became friends with

Francesco Filippini Francesco Filippini (18 September 1853 – 6 March 1895) was an Italian painter from Lombardy. He was much influenced by Tranquillo Cremona. Life Filippini was born into a poor family on 18 September 1853 in Brescia, in Lombardy, which at th ...

and Eugenio Gignous, with whom he would sometimes go to paint in Gignese. His interest in themes connected with reality is confirmed in subsequent works presenting scenes of an immediacy that reflects the contemporary developments in the field of the photography. One example is ''Break Time during Work on the Exhibition of 1881'' (1887, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan), presented at the Esposizione Nazionale di Belle Arti di Milano in 1881. A leading figure in the school of Lombard Naturalism, he combined scenes of everyday life with numerous landscapes, featuring the surroundings of

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and the Mottarone as from the 1870s and the mountain peaks on the border with

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at the end of the century. It was in the same period that he took up Symbolism, winning the Prince Umberto Prize at the Milan Triennale of 1897. Among his pupils was Umberto Bazzoli. One of his works is on display of the

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. The earthen tones and proletarian thematics often recall the works of

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (28 July 1868 – 14 June 1907) was an Italian Divisionist painter. Pellizza was a pupil of Pio Sanquirico. He used a Divisionist technique in which a painting is created by juxtaposing small dots of paint accordi ...

. Of his landscapes, one author states his ''name is associated with pictures of limitless and nebulous horizons''.Modern Italy, 1748-1922
By Conte Pietro Orsi, 1899, page 399.

Gallery

Pescadores en la playa - Filippo Carcano.jpg, ''Fisherman on the Beach'' Pescarenico Filippo Carcano.jpg, ''Pescarenico'' Filippo Carcano - Los creyentes.jpg, ''The Believers'' Filippo Carcano - Igreja da Saúde.jpg, ''Igreja da Saúde'' Filippo carcano, in pieno inverno (inverno in engadina), 1909.jpg, ''Inverno in Engadina''

References

* Laura Casone
Filippo Carcano
online catalogu
Artgate
by

Fondazione Cariplo Fondazione Cariplo is a charitable foundation in Milan, Italy. It was created in December 1991 when the Amato law, Law no. 218 of 30 July 1990, came into force. Under this law, saving banks were required to separate into a not-for-profit foun ...

, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article). Fillipo Carcano Archive

External links

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