Artists
Artists
Number of results: 143
Andrea Locatelli
Andrea Locatelli, born in Rome in 1695, was one of the leading landscape painters of the 18th century. He received his early training from his father Giovan Francesco, a little-known Florentine painter living in the district of Trastevere around 1700.
18th century AD
Angelo Morbelli
Born in 1853 in Alexandria, Morbelli studied under Bertini at the Brera Academy in Milan where he debuted in 1881, displaying a genre painting after the fashion of Luigi Conconi.
20th century AD
Antonio (Toti) Scialoja
Antonio (Toti) Scialoja was born in Rome in 1914 to a family of illustrious jurists. First he studied classics and law, then from the late 1930s he dedicated himself entirely to painting, combining this with intensive activity as an art critic; he also worked in the theatre, often collaborating with Aurel Milloss.
20th century AD
Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova (Possagno 1757 – Venice 1822) trained in Venice, but in 1779, aged 22, he moved to Rome, where he was strongly influenced by the Neoclassical style. Canova, who achieved wide international acclaim during his lifetime, was driven by a search for formal austerity, expressed through the concept of classical restraint based on a refined purity of form.
19th century AD
Antonio Corpora
Antonio Corpora was born of Italian parents in Tunisia, in 1909. It was there that he acquired the rudiments of painting, from a pupil of Gustave Moreau, Armand Vergeaud, formerly a friend of Matisse. He developed a deep attachment to the value of colour, at one with the great French modern tradition to which he would remain devoted for the rest of his long career.
20th century AD
Antonio Donghi
Antonio Donghi (Rome 1897–1963) first exhibited in 1922, with a cityscape, as part of the show produced by the Società amatori e cultori di Belle Arti in Rome. He was immediately recognized as a significant figure on the Roman art scene, and the next year he participated in the second Biennale in Rome, with a painting hung in the same room as works by Carlo Socrate and Francesco Trombadori, the advocates of the revival of classical traditions.
20th century AD
Antonio Mancini
Antonio Mancini was born in 1852 in Albano Laziale (in the province of Rome). From a poor background, by the age of 12 he had moved to Naples where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of Domenico Morelli. He lived in extreme poverty sharing accommodation with the sculptor Gemito.
19th century AD
20th century AD
Antonio Marasco
Antonio Marasco was born in Nicastro (Lamezia Terme) in 1896 and died in Florence in 1975, the city to which he moved in 1906 with the rest of his family. After finishing his technical studies, in 1912 he enrolled at the Liceo Artistico and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Galileo Chini.
Antonio Sanfilippo
Antonio Sanfilippo was born in Partanna in 1923. He studied first in Palermo, together with Pietro Consagra, and later in Florence’s Academy of Fine Arts. He met his future wife, Carla Accardi, and Guttuso, with whom he exhibited in Palermo, which was also the site of his first solo exhibition in 1945.
20th century AD
Antonio Zanchi
Zanchi was born at Este on 6 December 1631. He received his first training in the town of his birth from Giacomo Predali, but moved later to Venice to study with Matteo Ponzone. There he was captivated by Tintoretto’s huge canvases and came under the influence of the Roman painter Francesco Ruschi.
17th century AD