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Pietro Gaudenzi
Pietro Gaudenzi (January 18, 1880 in Genoa – December 23, 1955 in Anticoli Corrado, near Rome) was an Italian painter. Biography His father, Enrico, was a musician from Bergamo. He had received early training from the painter Francesco Del Santo in La Spezia, but then moved on to Genoa. He there studied at the Accademia Ligustica of Genoa, under Cesare Viazzi. He served in 1899 as an artist for the Genovese newspaper of ''Il Lavoro''. But in 1903, he received a five-year stipend to study in Rome, where he worked in the studio of Francesco Carena. Among his most frequent subjects were maternal genre scenes. In 1910, his final essay piece at the end of his scholarship, a painting titled ''I Priori'' was awarded a gold medal at an exhibition in Milan. The painting is now at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome. In 1913, he was awarded another gold medal for the ''Torso of a Young Woman'' at an Exposition at Munich in Bavaria. In 1915, he won the Principe Umberto prize f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of Genoa, which in 2015 became the Metropolitan City of Genoa, had 855,834 resident persons. Over 1.5 million people live in the wider metropolitan area stretching along the Italian Riviera. On the Gulf of Genoa in the Ligurian Sea, Genoa has historically been one of the most important ports on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean: it is currently the busiest in Italy and in the Mediterranean Sea and twelfth-busiest in the European Union. Genoa was the capital of Republic of Genoa, one of the most powerful maritime republics for over seven centuries, from the 11th century to 1797. Particularly from the 12th century to the 15th century, the city played a leading role in the commercial trade in Europe, becoming one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
