Artists
Artists
Number of results: 143
Achille Perilli
Achille Perilli was born in Rome in 1927. He studied classics at university under the tutelage of Lionello Venturi. Along with other young artists he founded Forma in 1947, the first Italian abstract group, whose aim was to foster the cohabitation of “formalism and Marxism”.
20th century AD
Afro Libio Basaldella
Afro Libio Basaldella (all his works were simply signed ”Afro”) was born in Udine in 1912, the third son after Dino and Mirko, destined to become two of the best Italian sculptors of their generation. Even at the height of his international career, Afro would remain profoundly attached to his native Friuli, as he would to a centuries-old tradition, known as “Venetian”, of using pure colour in painting.
20th century AD
Alberto Burri
Alberto Burri was born in Città di Castello in 1915. He graduated in medicine. A medical officer during the war in Africa, he was captured and transferred to prison camp in Hereford, Texas, where he began to paint. Following his release he moved to Rome, and in 1947 held his first one-man show of paintings and drawings that at the time were still figurative and characterized by a fiery expressionism.
20th century AD
Alberto Martini
Alberto Martini was born in Oderzo (Treviso) in 1876. His father Giorgio Martini was a professor of drawing and his mother Maria dei Conti Spineda de’ Cattaneis was an aristocrat from the old nobility. It was his father who gave him his early training in graphic design.
20th century AD
Alberto Savinio
Alberto Savinio (the pseudonym of Andrea de Chirico, younger brother of Giorgio) was born in Athens in 1891. He moved to Munich in 1906 and, from there to Milan. In 1910 he arrived in Paris where he frequented Avant-Garde circles.
20th century AD
Alberto Sughi
Alberto Sughi (Cesena 1928 - Bologna 2012) trained in Romagna together with some of his peers, including Giovanni Cappelli. For some time he lived and worked in both his home town and in Rome, where he finally settled.
20th century AD
Alberto Ziveri
Alberto Ziveri (Rome 1908-90), after attending the Liceo Artistico and the San Giacomo evening school for the ornamental arts between 1921 and 1929, was encouraged to follow his pictorial bent by a painter of no mean ability, Guglielmo Janni, who deserves to be reassessed today.
20th century AD
Alessandro Magnasco
Magnasco was one of the most important Italian painters of the 18th century, known for having revived the tradition of Italian landscape art by introducing aesthetical and artistic elements later found in the Romantic period.
He was born in Genoa on 4 February 1667 and began training under his father Stefano. He moved to Milan in 1681-82 following a Genoese merchant and there became apprenticed to Filippo Abbiati.
18th century AD
Alessandro Salucci
Salucci was born in Florence in 1590 and began training there before moving to Rome while still young. He soon began to work with well-established painters, specializing in imaginary architectural vedute. In 1628 he helped to fresco the Casino Sacchetti (now Casino Chigi) at Castelfusano, working alongside Andrea Sacchi and Pietro da Cortona.
17th century AD
Aligi Sassu
Aligi Sassu (Milan 1912 - Majorca 2000) began his career at a very early age; before he was twenty he joined the Futurist movement and, together with Bruno Munari, signed the Dinamismo e forza muscolare manifesto.
20th century AD