Domenico Quattrociocchi Biography
Domenico Quattrociocchi (1872 - 1942) Trained in Palermo with Lojacono and Marchesi, he later attended the Scuola Libera del Nudo in Rome and in 1895, in Palermo, he exhibited one of his works for the first time. After a brief stay in Venice he settled in Rome around 1900. His interest in nature provided him with subjects for paintings with animals and views of the Roman countryside; he also portrayed places in Palermo, to which he always remained attached and where he often returned. His painting, with a naturalist imprint, was influenced by the stylistic influence of Lojacono and was characterized by the careful analysis of reality and the use of broad, pasty brushstrokes. Many of his works stood out in exhibitions in Milan (1906, Meriggio, Dalla Montagna), in Rome (1907, Dal poggio, La cala, Crepuscolo, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna; 1908, among others, La quiete, Palermo , Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna), of Venice (1909, Morning Breeze). As the twentieth century advanced, figurative innovations did not distance him from the nineteenth-century conception of painting.
