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Alfonso Grassi was born in Solofra, in the province of Avellino, on 06/03/1918 and died in Salerno, on 02/07/2002. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples where he was a student of Carlo Silvieri, Emilio Notte and Vincenzo Caprile. Read the full biography

Alfonso Grassi was born in Solofra, in the province of Avellino, on 06/03/1918 and died in Salerno, on 02/07/2002. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples where he was a student of Carlo Silvieri, Emilio Notte and Vincenzo Caprile. At the age of nine he painted his first picture with cooking oil. Called up to arms, he left for the French front and later for Albania and Greece, where he was wounded in the arm. Few other painters can boast, like him, so many prizes won and so many collective and personal exhibitions. In 1982 he won the "Lorenzo il Magnifico" European painting prize. Favorite pupil of Giorgio de Chirico and friend of Pietro Annigoni and Gregorio Sciltian. Official portraitist of Pope Paul John II, Giorgio de Chirico, Sandro Pertini, Giulio Andreotti, the Prince of Torlonia, the Cardinal of Naples SE Michele Giordano and the Archbishop of Salerno Guerino Grimaldi. Nicknamed "the painter of the old", he also portrayed landscapes, still lifes and animals.