Francesco Trombadori Biography
Trombadori Francesco (Syracuse, 1886 - Rome, 1961) Francesco Trombadori was an Italian painter. In 1907 he moved to Rome, where he attended courses at the Academy of Fine Arts and the free school of the nude. He also had Giuseppe Cellini among his teachers and came into contact with figures such as Oppo, Bartoli, Broglio, Guidi. He held his first solo exhibition in 1911 in the Foyer of the Teatro Massimo in Syracuse. Trombadori frequented Enrico Lionne's studio, demonstrating his interest in pointillist painting, which was widespread in Rome. Furthermore, he also came into contact with the Bragaglia environment and this relationship will continue even when the artist follows neoclassical trends. In 1921 he became a professor of drawing at the Technical Institute of Civitavecchia and in 1922 he presented the book “Siracusa mia!”, the culmination of his pointillist period. Trombadori subsequently dedicated himself to ancient art, in an attempt to unite tradition and avant-garde in a personal way. In 1924 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale and at the Exhibition of Twenty Italian Artists at the Pesaro Gallery in Milan. Towards the end of the 1920s, his interest in landscape began to manifest itself, very often exhibited in national and international exhibitions and in 1931 he participated in the First Quadrennial with three works. In this period he continued with his participation in twentieth century exhibitions, also organized abroad. In 1938 his first monograph was published for the editions of "Circoli", with articles ranging from book reviews to seventeenth-century painting. At the end of the war the period dedicated to the original interpretation of the Roman landscape in a neo-metaphysical key began. Trombadori organized interesting exhibitions at the Galleri del Pincio (1951), at the “Tartaruga” (1955), at the Centro San Babia (1960), at the Galleria Russo (1961).
