Achille Martelli Biography
(Catanzaro 1829 - Avellino 1903) Having moved to Naples in 1848, where he participated in the insurrectionary uprisings, he followed G. Mancinelli's lessons at the Academy of Fine Arts. He made his debut at the Bourbon Biennial of 1859 and became friends with the painters of F.'s circle. Palizzi, including A. Cefaly and M. Lenzi. At the National Exhibition in Florence in 1861 he presented Domestic Scene and Garibaldi's Lodging, with which he entered the genre of Garibaldi's subjects, treating them in a minor tone and without any celebratory emphasis. He specialized in interior painting, faithful to Palizzi's realism and enriched by small anecdotes from everyday life, with which he participated with a certain assiduity in the Neapolitan Promotrice from 1862 to 1888 (1869, O tempora, o mores!, Catanzaro, Museo Pro- winning). From 1873 he also began to paint on ceramics. In 1882 he moved to Avellino. He exhibited among other places in Turin (1863, 1865), in Genoa (1864), in Parma (1870), in Naples (1877, among others, L'oroscopo amoroso, Avellino, Provincial Administration) and in Milan (1881).
