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Nicola Carrino Documented profileItaly
Born in Taranto in 1932, Nicola Carrino develops a sculptural practice centred on form and space; he dies in 2018. His work is presented in a first solo exhibition when he is barely…
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Alessio Issupoff Documented profileItaly
The Russian painter Alessio Issupoff, born in 1889 and deceased in 1957, is also known as Aleksei Vladimirovich Issupoff and Alessio Isupov. These variants accompany a career that Pi…
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Giuseppe Cesetti Documented profileItaly
Giuseppe Cesetti (1902–1990) was an Italian painter. A pair of oil paintings on canvas titled “Wild Horses”, each signed and measuring 67.5 × 67.5 cm, bears a label from the Galleria…
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Lavinia Fontana Documented profileItaly
Lavinia Fontana, a painter born in Bologna in 1552 and who died in Rome in 1614, also known as Lavinia Zappi, pursued a practice that combined portraiture with religious painting. In…
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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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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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Mario Sironi Documented profileItaly
Mario Sironi’s career combines an evolving approach to painting with a wide-ranging practice, from graphic design and stage design to architecture and mural painting, culminating in…
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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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Michele Cascella Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter, watercolourist and pastellist Michele Cascella was born on 7 September 1892 in Ortona a Mare and died in Milan in 1989. He was the son of Basilio Cascella and th…
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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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Nicola De Maria Documented profileItaly
Italian artist and painter Nicola De Maria, born in 1954 in Foglianise, lives and works in Turin. In Regno dei Fiore, dated 1983, watercolour and ink on paper — 23 × 27.5 cm — are ac…
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Mimmo Paladino Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter and sculptor Mimmo Paladino—whose name is Domenico Paladino—develops a practice that moves from painting to sculpture, installations and film. Born in Paduli in 1…
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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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Mario Cavaglieri Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Mario Cavaglieri (1887–1969), born in Rovigo, Veneto, developed a body of work spanning two distinct periods: the depiction of high society before the war, follow…
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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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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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Mario Tozzi Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Mario Tozzi was born in Fossombrone in 1895. He trained in Bologna before continuing his career in Paris. After abandoning his studies in chemistry, he enrolled a…
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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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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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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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Yannis Kounellis Documented profileGreece · Italy
Born in Piraeus in 1936 and died in Rome in 2017, Jannis Kounellis left Greece in 1956 to study art in Rome. He held his first solo exhibition there in 1960, at the La Tartaruga gall…
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Mario Schifano Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter and collagist Mario Schifano (1934–1998), born in Khoms, Libya, and who died in Rome, developed a practice that extends beyond painting: his work also encompassed…
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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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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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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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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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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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Sandro Chia Documented profileItaly
Italian painter and printmaker born in 1946, Sandro Chia is listed in the Tate directory as an artist. Works listed there include The Artifice, To the Tower, About the Unseizable, A…
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Renato Guttuso Documented profileItaly
The entries on Renato Guttuso document works from the period 1944–1947, including the Manifesto per le Città Eroiche, which CulturaItalia attributes to him and dates to 1944, and Wom…
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Mimmo Germana Documented profileItaly
Mimmo Germana (1944–1992) is represented in the collections of the Museo MAGA in Gallarate by Angelo, a painting from 1987. Measuring 115 × 100 cm, the work is inventoried there unde…
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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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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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Salvo Documented profileItaly
The Italian artist Salvo (1947–2015) is known by this name. Notturno, dated 1988, is an oil on paper mounted on canvas, measuring 535 × 380 mm. Its provenance mentions Galerie Friedr…
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Renato Natali Documented profileItaly
Italian painter Renato Natali (1883–1979), born and deceased in Livorno, situates his work within the artistic life of this port city. He is associated with Livorno’s post-Macchiaiol…
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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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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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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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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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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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Mario Reviglione Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter and printmaker Mario Reviglione, born in 1883 and died in 1965, studied with Giacomo Grosso and Paolo Gaidano at the Accademia Albertina in Turin from 1900 to 190…
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Mario Nigro Documented profileItaly
Italian painter Mario Nigro, born in Pistoia in 1917 and deceased in Livorno in 1992, brought together scientific studies, music and painting in his career. After his family moved to…
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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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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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Raffaele De Grada Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Raffaele De Grada, born in Milan in 1885 and deceased in the same city in 1957, is interested in landscape painting and seeks pictorial solutions connected both t…
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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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Silvano Bozzolini Documented profileItaly
Silvano Bozzolini’s practice spans abstract painting, works on paper and stained glass. After creating his first abstract painting in 1946, he pursues wood engraving, illustration an…
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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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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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Roberto Masi Documented profileItaly
Roberto Masi, an Italian painter born in Florence in 1940 and deceased in 2011, is presented by the gallery as a representative of Italian primitivism; the gallery also describes him…
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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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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