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Orazio Amato (1884-1952) was an important painter in the Italian artistic panorama between the two wars, although still little known.
His portraits and oils depicting the Roman countryside, where he grew up, are known, a place of worship for artists and intellectuals of the time such as the Roman watercolourists, the D'Annunzio painters and the XXV della Campagna Romana group, as well as many exponents of the Secessionism and the Roman School.
He began working in 1896 but it was only in 1910 that he presented himself to the public at the LXXX International Exhibition of Fine Arts, organized by the Society of Amateurs and Connoisseurs of Fine Arts. He moved to Rome and enrolled at the Academy of the Artistic Circle in via Margutta . Read the full biography

Orazio Amato (1884-1952) was an important painter in the Italian artistic panorama between the two wars, although still little known.
His portraits and oils depicting the Roman countryside, where he grew up, are known, a place of worship for artists and intellectuals of the time such as the Roman watercolourists, the D'Annunzio painters and the XXV della Campagna Romana group, as well as many exponents of the Secessionism and the Roman School.
He began working in 1896 but it was only in 1910 that he presented himself to the public at the LXXX International Exhibition of Fine Arts, organized by the Society of Amateurs and Connoisseurs of Fine Arts. He moved to Rome and enrolled at the Academy of the Artistic Circle in via Margutta . In May 1915 he was called up for the war but despite this, he continued to paint. In 1921 he participated in the first Roman Biennial and in the same year he founded the Art School of the Orti Sallustiani in Rome with Felice Carena and Attilio Selva, attended by students such as Capogrossi, Cavalli and Pirandello. He took part in several group exhibitions and inaugurated his first solo exhibition at the Sala Stuard in Via Veneto in 1924. He was appointed secretary of the Artistic Association of Via Margutta, a position he held until 1933. He exhibited at the eight editions of the Venice Biennale from 1926. In 1931 he was on the organizing committee of the First Quadrennial of National Art and, the same year, he participated in the Exhibition of Contemporary Italian Paintings in Baltimore in the United States. He participated in all the Quadrennials up to the seventh edition in 1955. In 1937 he received the gold medal at the Exposition Internationale des Art et Techniques in Paris and was named Academician of San Luca. In 1943 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome but in 1945, the position was revoked after the fall of Fascism.