Mario De Maria
Mario or Marius de Maria (9 September 1852 – 1924) was an Italian painter, known for depicting nocturnal landscapes, and gaining the label by the contemporary poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, as the ''painter of moons''. Biography He was born in Bologna into a family with an artistic pedigree: his great-grandfather had been the orchestra director at St Petersburg, while his paternal grandfather, Giacomo de Maria, had been a Neoclassicism, Neoclassical sculptor, a pupil of Antonio Canova, Canova, and instructor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna. His father, however, was a physician, and intended his son to follow his career. However, Mario enrolled in the Bolognese Academy of Fine Arts in 1872, and studied there irregularly until 1878. He studied under Antonio Puccinelli, but soon rebelled against the ''classicism'' of the school. He took some mentorship from Luigi Serra. He was also friends and contemporary with contemporary Bolognese painters Raffaele Faccioli and Luigi Busi, ...
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