Bartolomeo Piovano Biography
Bartolomeo Piovano was born in Moncalieri in 1903 and showed a great interest in painting from a very young age. At the age of just 17 he began to frequent the studio of the painter Tommaso Juglaris, who became a fundamental figure in his artistic training. However, after the master's death, for family and economic reasons, Piovano was forced to leave the world of art and work in a factory.
Despite this, Piovano continued to be passionate about painting and attended the evening drawing and ornamentation courses at the San Carlo Evening School in Turin, where he obtained the silver medal. In 1930 he enrolled at the Albertina Academy and resumed painting. In 1947 he moved to Argentina, where many of his works can currently be found.
Returning to Italy, Piovano dedicated himself more assiduously to painting, exhibiting from around 1963 at the Promotrice delle Belle Arti in Turin. He was a friend of the painter Angiola Meucci, a pupil of Delleani, who encouraged him to continue his search for adherence to reality and in the study of light and its variations.
Love for nature was the main theme of his works. Piovano returned to nature its grandeur, its magnificence and its strength, managing to portray every smallest detail in a sublime way. His technique was unusual and original, and he competed with the most astute painters of reality. Nature, the only protagonist of his landscapes, was described, relived and reread with a feeling of profound tenderness.
Bartolomeo Piovano died in 1975, leaving behind a set of works of great value and beauty. His painting remains an important testimony of his artistic sensitivity and his love for nature.
