Giulio Severino Belotti Biography
Giulio Saverino Belotti was born on 25 May 1900 in Bergamo. During his studies, he was a student of Ponzano Loverini at the Carrara Academy in Bergamo, where he earned a gold medal and the Piazzoni Prize. As a teacher, he worked in the same Academy from 1924 to 1927. In 1939 he moved to Milan where, in 1941, he presented his first solo exhibition at the Bolzani Gallery. He has exhibited in various exhibitions in Italy and abroad and has received awards for his paintings, including the purchase prize from the Municipality of Milan for the Autumn Landscape exhibited at the Gallery of Modern Art in Milan. In 1950, at the National Exhibition of Terni, he was awarded for the painting Head of Christ and, in the spring of the same year, he had considerable success at the Mostra Città di Gallarate with the painting La Fanciulla che si Comtina. In 1951, he received the silver medal of the Academy of Fine Arts of Perugia and two years later he held a successful solo exhibition at the Galleria Gussoni in Milan. In addition to his activity as a painter, Belotti also dedicated himself to art criticism and writing, publishing an essay on Pelizza da Volpedo in the Maestri del Colore collection. His works are present in various public collections, including the Gallery of Modern Art in Milan, the Carrara in Bergamo and the Picture Gallery of the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan. As a fresco artist, he created the facade of the church of Sant'Alessandro della Croce in Bergamo, the cycle of the life of Sant'Antonio in the Franciscan church of Salsomaggiore and other mural paintings with widely spread compositions in churches in Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria. He occasionally practiced etching. In November 1963, he held his last solo exhibition at the Galleria della Torre in Bergamo. Belotti died in Milan on 10 May 1964.
