Leopoldo Burlando
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Leopoldo Burlando (1841–1915) was an Italian painter, mainly painting cityscapes and
vedute A ''veduta'' (; : ''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 of landscape originated ...
. He 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 ...
, then in the Austrian Empire. He also trained in Milan 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 ...
under professor Luigi Bisi. He is known for painting vedute of Venice and Milan, and also interior perspectives of buildings such as the Certosa of Pavia and the
Cathedral of Milan Milan Cathedral ( ; ), or Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary (), is the cathedral church of Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Dedicated to the Nativity of St. Mary (), it is the seat of the Archbishop of Milan, currently Archbi ...
. He painted in oil and watercolor. Burlando was named honorary associate of the Brera Academy. He was also teacher of industrial design at the male orphanage in Milan.degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 80.


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1841 births 1915 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Painters from Milan Italian landscape painters Brera Academy alumni 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub