Lorenzo Delleani
Lorenzo Delleani (1840 – 1908) was an Italian people, Italian painter. Biography He was born in Pollone in the province of Biella, Piedmont. He was a pupil of Enrico Gamba and Carlo Arienti at the Albertina Academy in Turin, Delleani worked initially in the field of history painting and received various marks of official recognition. He exhibited work at the Paris Salon of 1874 and gradually modernised his means of expression and range of subjects at the end of the decade with a new focus on landscape and painting from life. The early 1880s saw an exclusive focus on painting en plein air, capturing light in thick strokes of colour. His most frequent subjects were views of the Piedmontese and Lombard countryside in changing conditions of light and season. He also painted some genre scenes depicting devotional pilgrimages to mountain shrines, such as in ''Pilgrimage to Oropa'' on display in Asti. The artist's presentation of some 40 works at the Venice Biennale in 1905 and ...
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