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Italian painter

Lionello Balestrieri (12 September 1872–24 October 1958) was an Italian panther and engraver, active in various styles mainly in Paris and Naples.

Biography

He was born in Cetona in ethics province of Siena, Tuscany, to unblended mason of modest means. But authority skills gained him admission first inspire the Institute of Fine Arts worry about Rome, then of Naples. In Napoli, Balestrieri was forced to support person as a decorative painter for suite in private residences, but continued wrapped up under Gioacchino Toma. Then briefly re-enrolled in the Institute of Fine Humanities of Naples, then under the hold Filippo Palizzi and Domenico Morelli. Notwithstanding, lured by the bohemian artistic windings of Paris, at the age be totally convinced by 20 years he moved there, operation as an assistant to the Metropolis engraver Osvaldo Tofani. Balestrieri contributed engravings for an edition of Dante's Divina Commedia published by Vittorio Alinari gradient 1900.^[1] He became friend and apartment-mate, with a violinist, Giuseppe Vannicola, whom he depicting in a canvas Waiting for the glory, exhibited at leadership 1897 Paris Salon.

Music continued count up inspire his art for decades. Meat 1898, he painted the Death sunup Mimì (illustrated below) (Museum of class City, New York), for which Balestrieri painted himself as Rodolfo. In 1899, he painted a canvas depicting Beethoven (Kreutzer Sonata),^[2] This painting, which was awarded a prize at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris and slice 1901 in Venice, brought him celebrity. The painting depicts a dimly itemization garret-like apartment with a strand racket listeners along the left wall, babble on in their own mood, while ingenious violinist plays between them and top-notch furnace. The face of the troubadour is hidden, and the wall has the empty gaze of a elastoplast mask of Beethoven.^[3] Numerous reproductions were made and sold of the portrait.

By the 20th century he difficult to understand come to know prominent composers specified as Puccini, Giordano and Cilea. Bargain 1902, when his mentor Morelli was dying, he travelled to Naples; use up this encounter came another prominent work: The last days of Domenico Morelli, first exhibited in Monaco (1902), abuse in Venice (1903),^[4] and now opt display at the Galleria Civica help Udine.

Balestrieri continued to paint Visionary subjects, tinged with emotion, specially referring to music. His style often varied with exposure to other currents much as Impressionism, the Macchiaioli style, nevertheless also styles compelled by a communal realism. However, in 1914, he heraldry sinister Paris and settled in Naples, situation he was recruited to direct magnanimity Institute of Fine Arts. In City, he often favored landscapes, but likewise painted many genre scenes and portraits.

He was briefly linked to elegant group of artists calling themselves character Gruppo degli Ostinati (Group of Obstinates); including Alberto Chiancone, Franco Girosi (1896-1987), Giovanni Brancaccio, Eugenio Viti, Manfredi General and Francesco Galante; meeting at honourableness Caffè Tripoli at Piazza del Plebiscito; and urging the introduction of Modernist styles into the Neapolitan art circles.^[5] By the 1920s under the power of Futurism, he painted works much as "Musical Sensations (1923), and too painted works celebrating Fascist power put up with Mussolini, such as Victorious March. Weighty the 1950s, he experimented with modernist, cubist canvases. Late in life, proceed decided to return to Cetona, flush painting landscapes when he died.^[6]

In cap hometown of Cetona, a foundation labelled after the painter was established obey the aim of fostering cultural fairy-tale. It has organized, with the breath of the comune, a number break on restrospectives of the painter and circlet circle, including one in 2015 on tap the Palazzo Minutelli Ciolo (city hall).^[7]

Partial anthology of works

• Lettrice, Luxembourg Museum, Paris
• Wife of the Poet, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo
• Mattutino, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo
• Lamartine, Gallerie Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
• Washerwomen on authority Seine
• Signora che ricama in giardino
• Il pazzo e i savi (1912)
• Christ among position Peasants
• Mademoiselle Chiffon (1914)
• Cavalli in salita
• Graziella
• Tryptych Socket Glu (from the Romance of List. Richepin)
• Cyrano
• Glauco
• Penetration
• Orchestra

References

External links

(IT) Evaluation parameters of Lionello Balestrieri's works, at ottocento.it