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Giacomo Vittone (Turin, 13 December 1898 – Rome, 1995) was an Italian painter and designer. Giacomo Vittone was born on 13 December 1898 in Turin and began painting at a very young age at the studio of the Gatti brothers in Turin. Read the full biography

Giacomo Vittone (Turin, 13 December 1898 – Rome, 1995) was an Italian painter and designer. Giacomo Vittone was born on 13 December 1898 in Turin and began painting at a very young age at the studio of the Gatti brothers in Turin. Here he met many contemporary artists, but in 1917 he was drafted and sent to the Karst where he experienced the First World War and the retreat from Caporetto firsthand. After the war he worked for some companies until 1926, the year in which he was hired by a credit institution and began his banking career. He married in Pola in Istria in 1928. In 1935 he moved to Riva del Garda for work. On Garda he vigorously resumed his artistic passion and became friends with many artists active in that period: Dal Lago, Pizzini, Simeoni etc. In his search for stimuli to translate into art, he fell in love with a charming medieval village near Lake Tenno above Riva del Garda, Canale di Tenno, which was almost abandoned at the time. In 1945 he began to sign his paintings with the pseudonym Pictor dominicus or simply Dominicus and was appointed curator of the civic museum of Riva del Garda and committed himself to the reconstruction of this institution, adding the first nucleus of the civic library and making it the hub of Riva culture . He is also dedicated to cultural and social life in Garda Trentino. In 1955 he received the gold medal from the municipality of Riva del Garda for cultural and artistic merit. In 1963 he moved to Ostia with his daughter, in 1971 after the death of his wife, he resumed signing his works with his real name Giacomo Vittone. He died almost a hundred years old in 1995 in Ostia.