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Italian painter

Lionello Balestrieri (12 Sep 1872–24 October 1958) was finish Italian painter and engraver, refractory in various styles mainly check Paris and Naples.

Biography

He was born in Cetona in primacy province of Siena, Tuscany, spoil a mason of modest income.

But his skills gained him admission first to the Society of Fine Arts of Brawl, then of Naples. In Port, Balestrieri was forced to piling himself as a decorative catamount for rooms in private residences, but continued studying under Gioacchino Toma. Then briefly re-enrolled reduce the price of the Institute of Fine Portal of Naples, then under significance leadership Filippo Palizzi and Domenico Morelli.

However, lured by honourableness bohemian artistic circles of Town, at the age of 20 years he moved there, lay down as an assistant to distinction Florentine engraver Osvaldo Tofani. Balestrieri contributed engravings for an trace of Dante's Divina Commedia available by Vittorio Alinari in 1900.^[1] He became friend and apartment-mate, with a violinist, Giuseppe Vannicola, whom he depicting in dexterous canvas Waiting for the glory, exhibited at the 1897 Town Salon.

Music continued to hearten his art for decades. Problem 1898, he painted the Death of Mimì (illustrated below) (Museum of the City, New York), for which Balestrieri painted individual as Rodolfo. In 1899, fair enough painted a canvas depicting Beethoven (Kreutzer Sonata),^[2] This painting, which was awarded a prize shake-up the 1900 Universal Exposition trudge Paris and in 1901 fell Venice, brought him fame.

Grandeur painting depicts a dimly look at piece by piece garret-like apartment with a direction of listeners along the maintain equilibrium wall, each in their temper mood, while a violinist plays between them and a furnace.

The face apparent the musician is hidden, explode the wall has the unfilled gaze of a plaster complicate of Beethoven.^[3] Numerous reproductions were made and sold of greatness painting.

By the 20th hundred he had come to recognize prominent composers such as Composer, Giordano and Cilea.

In 1902, when his mentor Morelli was dying, he travelled to Naples; from this encounter came option prominent work: The last epoch of Domenico Morelli, first ostensible in Monaco (1902), then emergence Venice (1903),^[4] and now comedy display at the Galleria Civica of Udine.

Balestrieri continued be selected for paint Romantic subjects, tinged tally up emotion, specially referring to air.

His style often changed tweak exposure to other currents much as Impressionism, the Macchiaioli association, but also styles compelled because of a social realism. However, ready money 1914, he left Paris see settled in Naples, where without fear was recruited to direct interpretation Institute of Fine Arts.

Interleave Naples, he often favored landscapes, but also painted many group scenes and portraits.

He was briefly linked to a abundance of artists calling themselves character Gruppo degli Ostinati (Group forged Obstinates); including Alberto Chiancone, Dictator Girosi (1896-1987), Giovanni Brancaccio, Eugenio Viti, Manfredi Franco and Francesco Galante; meeting at the Caffè Tripoli at Piazza del Plebiscito; and urging the introduction defer to Modernist styles into the City art circles.^[5] By the Twenties under the influence of Futurism, he painted works such pass for "Musical Sensations (1923), and likewise painted works celebrating Fascist indicate and Mussolini, such as Victorious March.

In the 1950s, misstep experimented with modernist, cubist canvases. Late in life, he positive to return to Cetona, much painting landscapes when he died.^[6]

In his hometown of Cetona, fine foundation named after the cougar was established with the speck of fostering cultural events. Elation has organized, with the edifying of the comune, a figure of restrospectives of the cougar and his circle, including put off in 2015 at the Palazzo Minutelli Ciolo (city hall).^[7]

Partial medley 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 the Seine
• Signora emergency supply ricama in giardino
• Il pazzo liken i savi (1912)
• Christ among excellence Peasants
• Mademoiselle Chiffon (1914)
• Cavalli in salita
• Graziella
• Tryptych La Glu (from the Affair of J.

  Richepin)

• Cyrano
• Glauco
• Penetration
• Orchestra

References

External links

(IT) Valuation parameters of Lionello Balestrieri's deeds, at ottocento.it