Vais Italo Nunes Biography
Italo Nunes Vais was born in Tunis in 1860. His family returned to Italy, settling in Florence, the city where the young Italo studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. Later, in 1880, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Arts of Naples, following the lessons of master Domenico Morelli. The influence that Morelli has on Nunes Vais is notable, especially in the choices of warm and true colors and in the orientalist themes that the painter embraced after numerous stays in Tunis in the second half of the 1980s and in the early 1990s. Nunes Vais participated in numerous exhibitions in Italy, always achieving critical and public success. His painting is characterized by the representation of everyday scenes with a certain sentimentality, but also by his ability to represent the East in a sensitive and captivating way. Later, the painter also dedicated himself to portraits, often painted in pastel. His art is characterized by variations in light and chiaroscuro, especially when he represents popular or village interiors. In his studio in Piazza Donatello, Nunes Vais welcomes numerous artists and participates in fashionable artistic events in Florence. In recent years he has dedicated himself mainly to sacred paintings, but never abandons his genre subjects. Nunes Vais died in Florence in 1932, at 72 years old.
