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Born in Piacenza on 24 February 1866, died in Milan on 24 November 1927. He made his first studies at the Academy of Lucca and continued them at the Neapolitan Institute of Fine Arts, where he obtained various prizes. Read the full biography

Born in Piacenza on 24 February 1866, died in Milan on 24 November 1927. He made his first studies at the Academy of Lucca and continued them at the Neapolitan Institute of Fine Arts, where he obtained various prizes. Having gone to Milan, he made himself known as a friendly watercolorist of customs and countries and as an illustrator of periodicals: especially of the «Italian Illustration», to which he dedicated twenty years of activity, making use of his vast knowledge of the customs and uses of the various countries to vividly illustrate the events. His art was the result of instinctive ability refined by constant study: conscientious, exquisite, elegant art. From a very young age he began to exhibit accurate genre paintings such as: "The field"; "The Chestnut Seller" and "Stable Poverty". At the Brera exhibition in 1897, he presented "The Two Lives", which was awarded a gold medal; at the Sardinian Exhibition of 1917 he sent "Al Cova di Milano" and at the Second Watercolor Exhibition held in Milan in 1925 he exhibited "Il Campanile di Courmayeur". Other paintings of his worthy of mention are: "Quarrels at the wash house"; "Laghetto in Grigna"; "Old things"; "Gloomy Notes"; "An Old Song"; "Portrait of Mr. Confalonieri"; "Portrait of Mrs. Confalonieri"; "The Simplon"; "The Task"; "The Battle of Solferino"; "Noontime"; "Towards Spluga"; "At the lower Piave"; "Sardinian country"; "At the source"; "A well"; "The Antiquary". With particularly successful results he illustrated "The review of Novara", a poem by Costantino Nigra.