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Plinio Nomellini (1866–1943) was an Italian painter.

Biography

Nomellini was born in

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in 1866. In 1885 he enrolled at the

Florence Academy of Fine Arts The Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze ("academy of fine arts of Florence") is an instructional art academy in Florence, in Tuscany, in central Italy. It was founded by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1563, under the influence of Giorgio Vasari. ...

, where he studied under Giovanni Fattori and formed friendships with

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and Silvestro Lega as well as

Giuseppe Pellizza Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (28 July 1868 – 14 June 1907) was an Italian divisionist painter. He was born and died in Volpedo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. Pellizza was a pupil of Pio Sanquirico. He used a divisionist technique ...

some time later. At the 1886 Promotrice of Florence, he exhibited a portrait and a landscape of ''Un uliveto''; at the 1887 Mostra he exhibited ''L'incontro'' and ''Piano di Tombolo''. In 1888, he exhibited a ''Portrait of Nina Van Zandt'' and ''Il fieno''. At the Mostra held at the Società d'Incoraggiamento of Florence he displayed the following paintings: ''Al sole''; ''Sciopero''; ''La giornata è finita (The Journey is Finished)''; ''Fiore selvaggio''; ''Foce del Calambrone'', and ''The Summer of San Martino''.''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 330. He took part in the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 and moved to Genoa, where he adopted

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, the following year. He exhibited a piece inspired by the Genoese workers' strikes at the 1st Brera Triennale in 1891 and was arrested on charges of anarchism in 1894. After being tried and acquitted, he became the focal point of a lively artistic set known as the Gruppo d’Albano. The guest of his friend Giacomo Puccini at Torre del Lago from 1902, he took up Symbolism and was involved in the creation of the "Dream Room" at the 7th Venice Biennale in 1907, having taken part in this event uninterruptedly since 1899 as well as the exhibitions of Genoa, Turin, Milan, Florence and Rome. In 1909 participated in the Paris Salon d'Automme with his fellow Tuscans, Llewelyn Lloyd and

Benvenuto Benvenuti Benvenuto Benvenuti (October 5, 1881 – 1959) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes. Biography He was born in Livorno and first trained under Lorenzo Cecchi at the School of Arts and Crafts of Livorno. He was influenced by the Macchiaiol ...

. He moved to Florence in 1919 and also set up a studio on the island of Elba, where he focused on landscape painting, in the following decade. He died in Florence in 1943.

References

* Laura Casone
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