Pietro Michis (August 12,

1836 Events January–March * January 1 — Hill Street Academy is named Colombo Academy and acquired by the Government, establishing the first public school in Sri Lanka. * January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand ...

– November 24,

1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 10 – The Aceh Sultanate was fully annexed by the Dutch forces, deposing the last sultan, marking the end of the Aceh War that have lasted for al ...

) was an Italian

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

, mostly of

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 ...

scenes.

Biography

He was a resident of

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 ...

, the city of his birth. In 1851 he began studies 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

Giuseppe Bertini Giuseppe Bertini (1825–1898) was an Italian painter, active in his native Milan. Biography He studied at the Brera Academy under Luigi Sabatelli and Giuseppe Bisi, and in 1845 was awarded the ''Gran premio di pittura dell'Accademia di Brer ...

. He married the painter Maria Cattaneo; they often worked together on canvases. He became director of the school of painting in Pavia. Michis mainly painted both pure genre and historic subjects, sometimes called ''genere de costume'' or ''costumed genre''. Among the main works of Michis: in 1887 at Naples, he exhibited ''Fruit of a Diverse Education'', ''Vigil for Epiphany'', and ''The modern pilgrim''; in 1880 at Turin, he exhibited ''L'estremo vale di Leone X a Raffaello'', ''The astrologer

Cornelius Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (; ; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer. Agrippa's ''Three Books of Occult Philosophy'' pub ...

predicts to

Francis I of France Francis I (; ; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin once removed and father-in-law Louis&nbs ...

that he will be defeated at Pavia'', and ''Il racconto del naufrago''; in 1881 at Milan, ''Le beghine'', ''Interior of Baptistery of Pisa''; in 1883, a portrait of marchese Apollinare Rocca Saporiti della Sforzesca, completed by commission of the Count Marcello Rocca Saporiti della Sforzesca; and in 1884 at Turin, ''Astio antico'' and ''Nel cortile''.Enciclopedia Treccani
entry Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 74 (2010) by Francesco Franco.

References

19th-century Italian painters Artists from the Austrian Empire Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters 1836 births 1903 deaths Painters from Milan Italian costume genre painters Brera Academy alumni 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub