Luigi Vicentini Biography
Pietro Vicentini was born in Pomarolo in 1901, demonstrating from a young age a strong inclination for art through drawing. His teacher, Baghella, encouraged him to cultivate this artistic passion, so much so that, at the age of eighteen, he moved to Milan to enroll in the School of Applied Arts of the Castello Sforzesco. Subsequently, he moved to Brera, where he had the opportunity to meet artists of the caliber of Palanti, Grandi and Comolli. In 1927, he contributed to the creation of the sets for the Teatro della Scala. In 1928, he moved to the Cinque Terre, on the Ligurian Riviera, where he designed his first non-decorative artistic works, but of landscape design en plein air. The success of his art was definitively consecrated at the VII Esposizione d'Arte Roveretana in 1930, which Diego Costa had described as "the exhibition that had launched Vicentini". In 1950, he was invited to Rome to paint the beauties of the city by a high prelate during the Jubilee celebrations. Vicentini preferred to paint mountain landscapes and nature in all its manifestations, so much so that he often traveled to the Dolomites. He died in Nomi, in 1970.
