Alberto Prosdocimi (September 9, 1852 – 1925) was an Italian painter and manuscript illuminator. He often painted

vedute A ''veduta'' (Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''. Origins This genre ...

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

in pale and bright watercolors, often sold abroad

Biography

He studied painting at the

Accademia of Venice The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It was originally the gallery of ...

, but also trained in the studio of his father. He often painted in watercolor, but like his father, he was a respected manuscript illuminator.Museo Castelfranco Veneto
short biography with depiction of ''Veduta di Venezia con la chiesa della Salute''. He copied the

Grimani Breviary The House of Grimani was a prominent Venetian patrician family, including three Doges of Venice. They were active in trade, politics and later the ownership of theatres and opera-houses. Notable members included: Notable members *Domenico Grima ...

held in the Library of San Marco at Venice. He completed the diplomas of honor awarded by Florence to their mayor Peruzzi factory. He was commissioned by Queen Margherita to create an illuminated portrait of the Prince of Naples. He also made an elaborately illuminated album by the aristocracy of Padua and Verona as a gift to the Queen. He was engaged to tutor in painting the Princess Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and of the hereditary Granduchess of Granduchessa Holdemburg. The latter commissioned some watercolors from him. He was one of the collaborators of a masterwork ''La basilica di S. Marco illustrata nella storia e nell'arte'' (1878–93), published by Ferdinando Ongania. Prosdocimi made the drawings of the Basilica that were used in chromolithographs by Ongania. Gubernatis wrote about Prosdocimi's vedute of ''The Baptistery'':

''by regularity of line and perspective, by evidence of light effects, has the mathematical exactness of remembered paintings, but it stands out for revealing very intensely the poetry of the atmosphere, which Prosdocimi profoundly feels without truncating the original feeling; while among the Venetians he has an individuality, calculated and devived from the studies of concepts and technique.

Gallery

Alberto Prosdocimi Dogenpalast.jpg, Doge's palace waterfront Alberto Prosdocimi Steintreppe zum Seeufer.jpg,

Villa del Balbianello The Villa del Balbianello is a villa in the comune of Lenno ( province of Como), a province in the north of the Lombardy region of Italy, overlooking Lake Como. It is located on the tip of the small wooded peninsula of Dosso d'Avedo on the weste ...

Lake Como Lake Como ( it, Lago di Como , ; lmo, label=Western Lombard, Lagh de Còmm , ''Cómm'' or ''Cùmm'' ), also known as Lario (; after the la, Larius Lacus), is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of , making it the thir ...

Alberto Prosdocimi Venezia Palazzo Soranzo van Axel.jpg,

Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel is a Gothic palace in Venice, Italy located in the Cannaregio district. The palace locates at the intersection of the Rio de la Panada and the Rio de Ca' Widmann. History The palace was erected between 1473 and 1479 for N ...

in Venice Alberto Prosdocimi Weinverkäuferin vor dem Dogenpalast.jpg, Wine-seller at the Doge's Palace

References

19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters 1852 births 1925 deaths Painters from Venice Italian vedutisti Manuscript illuminators 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub