Angiolo Achini (March 6, 1850 – January 16, 1930) was an
Italian
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painter
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.
Biography
Angiolo Achini was born in
Milan
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. He was educated at the
Brera Academy
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, where he studied under
Giuseppe Bertini
Giuseppe Bertini (1825–1898) was an Italian painter, active in his native Milan.
Biography
He studied at the Brera Academy under Luigi Sabatelli and Giuseppe Bisi, and in 1845 was awarded the ''Gran premio di pittura dell'Accademia di Brera ...
.
[Agnellini, Maurizio (1998). ''Ottocento italiano: pittori e scultori: opere e mercato 1998–1999''. Novara: Istituto geografico de Agostini. p. 11. .] At age 27, he won a national prize for best
history painting
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.
In his early 30s, he became a follower of painter
Tranquillo Cremona (a leading member of the ''
Scapigliatura
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''). He painted two portraits of Cremona. After completing his studies, he exhibited paintings in
Rome
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and Milan in 1881 and in
Turin
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in 1882. He also exhibited his paintings abroad, e.g. in
Munich
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in 1888. Among his historical canvases were ''Savonarola arrested'' and ''Il colloquio di Clemente VII con Carlo VI ai danni of Firenze'' (1880, exhibited at Turin). In 1881 at Milan, he exhibited the landscape ''Una nevicata''.
In 1883 at Milan: ''Baptism''; ''Lo scalo merci''; two portraits; ''una Messalina'', and ''La ripa di porta Ticinese''. In 1883 in Rome he exhibited ''Interno di San Marco''; ''Attenzione''; ''Circus Romanus''; ''
Tranquillo Cremona sul suo letto di morte''; ''Ottobre''; and ''Tramonto''.
In 1886 at Milan, he exhibited the watercolors ''Monaca'' and ''Marina'', and oil canvases ''Vedova''; ''Lo scarico delle merci''; and ''Amor Materno''.
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by Angelo de Gubernatis
Count Angelo De Gubernatis (1840–26 February 1913), Italian man of letters, was born in Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature fourteen times.
Life
In 1862 he wa ...
. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 563.
He died in Milan on January 16, 1930.
Works
Achini's works include:
*''Interno di San Marco'' (Interior of San Marco)
*''
Tranquillo Cremona sul letto di morte'' (Tranquillo Cremona on his deathbed)
*''Amor Materno'' (Maternal love)
*''Circus Romanus''
*''Nevicata'' (Snowfall)
*''Ritratto di
Francesco Tamburini
Francesco Tamburini (1846 in Ascoli Piceno, Italy – 1891 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Italian-born architect who designed many important architectural landmarks in Argentina.
He studied architecture in Italy and arrived in Argentina in 18 ...
'' (Portrait of
Francesco Tamburini
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He studied architecture in Italy and arrived in Argentina in 18 ...
)
*''L'arresto di Fra' Gerolamo Savonarola'' (The Arrest of Fra' Gerolamo Savonarola)
*''A mosca cieca'' (At blind man's buff)
*''Mascherina'' (Mask)
*''Donna in costume turco'' (Lady in Turkish dress)
References
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1850 births
1930 deaths
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
20th-century Italian painters
Painters from Milan
19th-century painters of historical subjects
Brera Academy alumni
19th-century Italian male artists
20th-century Italian male artists