Vincenzo Ciardo Biography
Vincenzo Ciardo (1894 - 1970) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino from 1908 to 1913. In 1918 he moved to Naples, going to live in Pozzuoli, and from then on took part in Italian artistic life. From 1920 he dedicated himself to the artistic genre of landscape, and from the same year he was full professor of drawing at the Technical School of Pozzuoli. From 1940 to 1965, after having taught figure drawing for a few years at the artistic high school in Naples, he was director of the free landscape school at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples.
Present at the most important national exhibitions, he has held personal exhibitions in the main Italian cities. His works are in public and private collections including the National Gallery of Modern Art and the Municipal Gallery of Rome, the Gallery of Latina, the Provincial Museum of Bari, that of Lecce, the Academy of Lecce, the Civic Museums of Turin and Milan, the Modern Art Gallery of Palazzo Pitti in Florence, the civic art gallery of Chieti, the Civic Museum of Udine, the museums of Capodimonte, San Martino and the collection of the Municipality and the Banco di Napoli in Naples. A cultured painter, he was also an art writer with clear and lucid prose.
