Paintings
Female Nude
La femme
Cesare Sarfatti
Giacomo Grosso ( 23 May 1860 Cambiano – 14 Janary 1938 Torino) Italian Painter
Biography
Nine of the eleven children of a carpenter cambianese William Grosso and Joan Vidotti, abandoned his studies at the seminary in Giaveno graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, and became professor of painting in 1889. His academic technique and its stylistic conservatism granted him a large following among customers, aristocratic and upper classes, and gained her numerous awards and recognitions. He exhibited throughout Europe, often attended Paris and in 1908 in Buenos Aires with the student Charles Gaudina to produce a cycle of decorations. A solo exhibition with over fifty works by Leonardo Bistolfi was presented at the Galleria Pesaro in Milan in 1926.
Portrait of Cesare Sarfatti, 1926 (Cariplo)
He was appointed Senator of the Kingdom March 2, 1929. He lived in Turin, where he married and had two children. He is buried in the Cemetery of Turin.
He painted portraits of royalty, of Benedict XV, of Giovanni Agnelli, Toscanini and Puccini, and often indulged in an erotic nude subjects in good taste, so as to be accused of immorality. Noted was the controversy provoked the first Venice Biennale in 1895 for his painting Supreme Meeting: inside a church, around the open coffin of Don Giovanni, the Fat represented a group of naked women, provoking condemnation of the patriarch of Venice, Giuseppe Sarto, the future Pius X, but also the defense of the writer Fogazzaro. The painting was later destroyed in a fire in the ship transporting him in an exhibition in the United States.
The Naked, painted a year later, confirmed the bad taste of its inspiration and its closure pompier Provincial to modern painting that is said in Europe: after all, the Fat loved said to be "just a painter," ironically defining " artists' those of his colleagues who refused clichés dell'estenuata academic tradition.
Works
Supreme Convention, 1895, destroyed
La Femme, 1895, Museo Civico, Asti
Nude Art Gallery, the Albertina, Turin
The actress Virginia Reiter, 1896
Nude, 1896, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Turin
Portrait of Arturo Toscanini, 1911, Private Collection
In the mirror, 1914, Ricci Oddi Gallery, Piacenza
Honors
Knight of the Order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus - even ordinary ribbon for Knight of the Order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus
- November 23, 1893
Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy - even ordinary ribbon for Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy
- March 7, 1907
Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy - even ordinary ribbon for Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy
- June 11, 1922
Knight of the Legion of honor - even ordinary ribbon for Knight of the Legion of Honor
Bibliography
Giacomo Grosso in Turin, the painter of the century, edited by Giuseppe Luigi Marini, Milan 1990
Laura Casone, Giacomo Grosso, catalog Artgate Cariplo Foundation, 2010, CC-BY-SA.
Sheet Senator Giacomo Grosso senato.it
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