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Adolfo Carducci Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Adolfo Carducci, born in 1901 and died in 1984, is documented here through works whose titles evoke street scenes, places for walks and landscapes. Paris appears…
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Afro Basaldella Documented profileItaly
Afro Basaldella (1912–1976) develops his pictorial language from expressionist and post-Cubist explorations towards abstraction, to which he turns after the Second World War. His car…
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Agostino Bonalumi Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter, draughtsman and sculptor Agostino Bonalumi develops the idea of «pittura – oggetto», or «object-painting»: a form of painting conceived to go beyond the frame of…
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Alberto Salietti Documented profileItaly
The Italian artist Alberto Salietti, born in Ravenna in 1892 and died in Genoa in 1961, devoted himself to landscape painting after the First World War. Having moved to Milan with hi…
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Aldo Rossi Documented profileItaly
The Italian architect Aldo Rossi, born in 1931 and deceased in 1997, developed a practice encompassing architectural design, writing, teaching and product design. He studied at the P…
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Alessandro Lupo Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Alessandro Lupo was born and died in Turin. His work belongs to the tradition of late nineteenth-century Piedmontese naturalism. His landscapes are described as i…
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Alighiero Boetti Documented profileItaly
Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) became known in Turin in the early 1960s, initially associated with Arte Povera. In 1969, he distanced himself from the movement and developed a more per…
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Angelo Brombo Documented profileItaly
The Italian catalogue lists I rammendatori di reti as a painting attributed to Angelo Brombo. Dated to the second quarter of the 20th century, with a date range from 1925 to 1949, th…
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Antonio Bueno Documented profileItaly
Born in Berlin in 1918, Antonio Bueno is an Italian painter of Spanish origin whose education and early years chart a path across several countries: he begins studying art in Spain a…
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Antonio Scaccabarozzi Documented profileItaly
Born in Merate in 1936 and died in Santa Maria Hoè in 2008, Antonio Scaccabarozzi presented his first research works in the field of geometric abstraction in Milan. In 1959, he recei…
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Arturo Vermi Documented profileItaly
Arturo Vermi (1928–1988) is associated, in a sales notice, with his friends from Cenobio and a search for the sign as an expressive element. This indication situates his approach wit…
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Attilio Pratella Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Attilio Pratella, born in Lugo in 1856 and deceased in Naples in 1949, spent most of his life in the latter city. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologn…
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Camillo Innocenti Documented profileItaly
Camillo Giovanni Innocenti, also known as Camillo Innocenti, was an Italian painter born in 1871 and died in 1961. Auction catalogues document several works under his name, including…
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Carlo Sbisà Documented profileItaly
Born in 1899 and deceased in 1964, Carlo Sbisà is documented in the Italian general catalogue through works spanning portraiture, religious art and liturgical furnishings. It lists,…
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Cesare Maggi Documented profileItaly
An Italian painter associated with the second generation of Divisionists, Cesare Maggi developed a body of work in which mountain landscapes occupy a central place. His attention to…
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Claudio Olivieri Documented profileItaly
Italian painter (1934–2019), Claudio Olivieri is associated with Incunabolo '92, a painting dated 1992 and attributed to the artist. The work is listed in the collection of Museo MAG…
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Dadamaino Documented profileItaly
Dadamaino, the pseudonym of Eduarda Emilia Maino, developed an artistic practice in which the surface becomes a site of passage: perforations, offset grids and calligraphic signs bri…
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Dario Cecchi Documented profileItaly
The Italian artist and creator Dario Cecchi (1918–1992) was born in Florence and died in Rome. The son of the writer Emilio Cecchi, he worked as a painter, writer, costume designer a…
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Domenico De Bernardi Documented profileItaly
The Italian artist Domenico De Bernardi (1892–1963), born and died in Besozzo, is documented here through two works mentioned in separate entries and catalogues. The MuseiD-Italia en…
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Duilio Barnabè Documented profileItaly
Duilio Barnabè, an Italian painter, was born in Bologna on 1 February 1914 and died in Rome on 8 May 1961; he lived from 1914 to 1961. Philob reports that he attended the Academy of…
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Ennio Morlotti Documented profileItaly
Ennio Morlotti was an Italian painter, born in 1910 and deceased in 1992. A CulturaItalia entry attributes to Ennio Morlotti a painting titled “Paesaggio,” dated 1955 and measuring 6…
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Enrico Castellani Documented profileItaly
Enrico Castellani’s research makes relief a principle of composition: the deformations of the canvas, arranged as projections and recesses, alter the light and establish a rhythm in…
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Enzo Cucchi Documented profileItaly
In Enzo Cucchi’s work, painting opens up to a plurality of materials and forms: images combine explicit and implicit elements, while his practice extends to walls, installation, cera…
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Enzo Esposito Documented profileItaly
Born in Benevento in 1946, the Italian painter Enzo Esposito began bringing his painting into gallery spaces in 1977: his first installations were painted directly onto the walls. Th…
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Ernesto Tatafiore Documented profileItaly
Born in 1943 in Marigliano, near Naples, Ernesto Tatafiore is an Italian artist and painter. His work “Danton”, a mixed-media work on canvas, titled within the image and measuring 35…
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Ezelino Briante Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter of landscapes, seascapes and vedute Ezelino Briante was born in Naples in 1901. One notice reports that he is said to have studied briefly at the Academy of Naple…
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Fausto Melotti Documented profileItaly
The Italian sculptor, painter, ceramicist and lithographer Fausto Melotti conceives of sculpture as an investigation into the organisation of space, which he seeks to articulate acco…
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Fernando Botero Documented profileColombia · France · Italy
The Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, also identified by his full name, Luis Fernando Botero Angulo, was born in Medellín in 1932 and died in Monaco in 2023. In 1957, *…
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Ferruccio Ferrazzi Documented profileItaly
The sale catalogue describes a signed, dated and titled oil on canvas depicting Herta Ottolenghi and her son Astolfo, measuring 126 × 151 cm. According to this catalogue, a label on…
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Ferruccio Manganelli Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Ferruccio Manganelli, born in 1883 and died in 1968, trained at the Royal Professional School of Colle di Val d’Elsa while also attending evening drawing classes…
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Filippo De Pisis Documented profileItaly
Natura morta con giacinto e garofani is an oil on canvas, signed and dated “de Pisis 36” at the lower right; it measures 130.3 × 97 cm. Its provenance is given as a Swiss private col…
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Franz Borghese Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter and sculptor Franz Borghese (1941–2005), born in Rome according to a sale notice, is notably documented by Il cavaliere. This oil on canvas, dated 1969, is signed…
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Giampaolo Talani Documented profileItaly
Giampaolo Talani (1955–2018) is documented here by Partenza, an oil painting on wood dated 2001. Measuring 702 mm high and 500 mm wide, the work is signed, dated and titled on the re…
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Giò Pomodoro Documented profileItaly
Giorgio Pomodoro was born in Orciano di Pesaro in 1930 and died in Milan in 2002. Giò Pomodoro was the younger brother of the sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro. After moving to Milan with hi…
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Giorgio Morandi Documented profileItaly
Still lifes occupy a central place in Giorgio Morandi’s work. He creates small paintings using ordinary objects from his collection, carefully arranging them on a table in his studio…
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Giorgio Oprandi Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Carlo Giorgio Oprandi was born and died in Lovere, in 1883 and 1962. Invaluable lists him as a figure painter, portraitist and landscape painter. Among the works…
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Giovanni Guarlotti Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Giovanni Guarlotti (1869–1954) is represented by a work titled “Hühnerhof”. Catalogued as an oil on wood, signed lower right and measuring 32 × 48 cm, it was sold…
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Giovanni Migliara Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Giovanni Migliara, born in Alessandria in 1785 and died in Milan in 1837, is represented in the Italian general catalogue by a work dedicated to an emblematic bui…
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Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio, born and deceased in Alba, makes industrial painting and its deployment in space a central part of his work. Born Giuseppe Gallizio, he o…
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Giuseppe Sacheri Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Giuseppe Sacheri, born in 1863 and deceased in 1950, is documented by two works, one held in Genoa and the other described in an auction catalogue. A heritage rec…
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Giuseppe Santomaso Documented profileItaly
Giuseppe Santomaso (1907–1990), an Italian painter, is represented by works that offer distinct points of reference for approaching his work in terms of date, format and technique. F…
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Giuseppe Spagnulo Documented profileItaly
Giuseppe Spagnulo was an Italian sculptor, born in 1936 and died in 2016. One of his works is among the acquisitions of the Academy Collection assembled at the State Academy of Fine…
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Guglielmo Welters Documented profileItaly
Guglielmo Welters was born in Capri in 1913 and died in Genoa in 2003. The auction listing describes «Golfo di Bordighera» as an oil painting on panel signed «G. Welters». Another li…
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Guido Tallone Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Guido Tallone, born in Bergamo in 1894 and died in Alpignano in 1967, worked primarily in portraiture and landscape. Trained at the Brera Academy under his father…
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Karl Plattner Documented profileItaly
Karl Plattner is listed as a painter, decorative painter, genre painter, landscape painter and still-life painter. Bergdorf is listed in the Karl Plattner Archives in Bolzano under r…
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Luciano Bartolini Documented profileItaly
Italian painter Luciano Bartolini, born in Fiesole in 1948 and deceased in 1994, turned to artistic creation after studying languages rather than through formal art training. He made…
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Lucio Fontana Documented profileArgentina · Italy
The Italian-Argentine sculptor, painter and theorist Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) is associated with the Manifiesto blanco and Spatialism, two reference points mentioned in his biograph…
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Luigi Amato Documented profileItaly
Born in 1898 in Spezzano Albanese, Calabria, Luigi Amato received his first lessons in drawing and geometry from his father. At the age of fourteen, he received a scholarship that to…
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Luigi Brignoli Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Luigi Brignoli, born in Palosco in 1881 and died in Bergamo in 1952, trained at the Accademia Carrara under Cesare Tallone and Ponziano Loverini, then attended cl…
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Marco Gastini Documented profileItaly
For Marco Gastini, painting is not limited to the surface: its relationship to space, both mental and physical, runs through his artistic language, while the works extend beyond canv…
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GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026