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, 1863 –

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, 1920) was an Italian painter, painting in an

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style using both oil and pastels.

Biography

He moved in 1891 to Naples to study painting at the Istituto of Fine Arts under cavaliere

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, then moved to Paris (1897-1903), London, and Rome for a number of years. In Naples, he frequented the

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, where he befriended

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, D'Annunzio and

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. He painted figures and landscapes. In 1920 at the Biennale of Venice, he merited a posthumous exhibition of 35 works. He designed the covers of various illustrated journals, for example ''Ilustrazione Italiana'' of the

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ese firm of ''

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''. In 1875 at the Promotrice in Naples, he exhibits: ''Chi è là?'', a painting once at the Royal Pinacoteca of Capodimonte; In 1887 at the same Mostra: ''Mercato''; ''At the Beach'', ''At London'', and two small

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paintings; in 1887 at Venice: ''Estate''; and in 1888 at the Promotrice of Naples: ''Sui monti di Amalfi'' and a ''Seascape''. Enciclopedia Treccani
short biography.

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1863 births 1920 deaths People from Amalfi Painters from Campania 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Italian landscape painters Painters from Naples 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub