The art collections of Fondazione Cariplo are a gallery of

art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

works with a significant historical and artistic value owned by

Fondazione Cariplo Fondazione Cariplo is a charitable foundation in Milan, Italy. It was created in December 1991 when the Amato law, Law no. 218 of 30 July 1990, came into force. Under this law, saving banks were required to separate into a not-for-profit fou ...

in Italy. It consists of 767 paintings, 116 sculptures, 51 objects and furnishings dating from the first century AD to the second half of the twentieth. The collection includes examples of

Late Antiquity Late antiquity is the time of transition from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, generally spanning the 3rd–7th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin. The popularization of this periodization in English ha ...

stone

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable ...

, of Mediaeval wooden sculpture, and of

Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance ( it, Rinascimento ) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Europe and marked the trans ...

and Baroque painting; its strength is in its collection of nineteenth-century Italian paintings, particularly from Lombardy.

Selected collection highlights

Filippo Palizzi - Le Printemps (1868).jpg, Filippo Palizzi Vincenzo Irolli - The Angel Musician - 1900-05.jpg, Vincenzo Irolli

History of the collections

The

Cariplo Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde known as Cariplo SpA, was an Italian bank. On 2 January 1998 the bank merged with Banco Ambrosiano Veneto to form Banca Intesa. The company became a short-lived sub-holding company in late 1990s, which w ...

bank (Savings Bank of the Lombardy Provinces) began to form the collection in 1923, originally through the acquisition of paintings and sculptures by contemporary artists exhibited in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

with the aim to promote and encourage the arts in Lombardy. This policy continued after the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

, and increased with annual purchases of the Permanente company and exhibitions of religious art at the Angelicum. Since the late 1960s, it began to make purchases at sales held by auction houses. The works of Istituto Bancario Italiano were added to its collection. It includes a portrait gallery of former Cariplo presidents. After the passage of the Amato Law donations increased, including the (Manara Grolle, Marcenaro legacy). Completing the collection of presidential portraits at the Cariplo, are paintings and sculptures of the nineteenth and twentieth century depicting many of the protagonists of the modern Italian economy. The collection was inherited the aftermath of the Amato Law, the Cariplo Foundation increased as a result of subsequent donations (legacy Manara, Grolla, Marcenaro). In 2011 within the project, Share Your Knowledge, the foundation was made available under CC BY-SA boards of authors and works of art, including low-resolution images of the works in their collections.

Gallerie di Piazza Scala

The

Gallerie di Piazza Scala The Gallerie d'Italia - Milano is a modern and contemporary museum in Milan, Italy. Located in Piazza della Scala in the Palazzo Brentani and the Palazzo Anguissola, it hosts 195 artworks from the collections of Fondazione Cariplo with a strong ...

, a museum of nineteenth-century art, opened in

in 2011. It holds almost two hundred artworks from the Cariplo collections and those of Intesa San Paolo, ranging from

bas-relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term '' relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...

s by Antonio Canova to works by

Umberto Boccioni Umberto Boccioni (, ; 19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his short life, his approach ...

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', News about the opening of the 19th century museum in Milan, Fondazione Cariplo website, 2011-06-01

List of artists in the collections

;A * Vincenzo Abbati *

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* Francesco Albotto * Attilio Alfieri * Luca Alinari * Aldo Andreani * Antonianos di Afrodisia * Fausto Antonioli * Emanuele Appendini *

Andrea Appiani Andrea Appiani (31 May 17548 November 1817) was an Italian Neoclassicism, neoclassical painter. Life Born in Milan, it had been intended that he follow his father's career in medicine but instead entered the private academy of the painter Car ...

* Ercole Salvatore Aprigliano * Francesco Filippo Arata *

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;B * Giovanni Balansino * Salvatore Balsamo * Achille Barbaro * Alessandro Barbieri * Contardo Barbieri * Donato Barcaglia * Ugo Vittore Bartolini * Ferruccio Baruffi *

Jacopo Bassano Jacopo Bassano (c. 1510 – 14 February 1592), known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, and took the village as his surname. Trained in the workshop of his father, Francesco t ...

(bottega di) * Francesco Battaglioli *

Ernesto Bazzaro Ernesto Bazzaro (29 May 1859, Milan – 18 May 1937, Milan) was an Italian sculptor. Biography Like his elder brother, Leonardo, Ernesto Bazzaro studied at the Brera Academy in Milan, which he attended from 1875, winning the Luigi Canonica P ...

* Leonardo Bazzaro * Mario Bazzi * Alberto Bazzoni *

Giorgio Belloni Giorgio Belloni (Codogno (Lodi), 1861 – Azzano di Mezzegra (Como), 1944) was an Italian painter. Biography A pupil of Giuseppe Bertini at the Brera Academy, Belloni made his debut in 1879 with two perspective views of interiors. After a stay i ...

* Simon Benetton *

Nicolas Berchem Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1 October 1620 – 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre ...

* Cirillo Bertazzoli * Giorgina Bertolucci Di Vecchio * Oreste Betti * Mario Bettinelli * Bartolomeo Bezzi * Amedeo Bianchi *

Mosè Bianchi Mosè Bianchi (1840–1904) was an Italian painter and printmaker. Biography Bianchi was born in Monza. His family moved to Milan and he enrolled at the Brera Academy. Having interrupted his studies to serve in the second war of independence, h ...

Giuseppe Biasi Giuseppe Biasi (Sassari, 1885 – Andorno Micca (Biella), 1945) was an Italian painter. Biography While pursuing classical studies in accordance with his family’s wishes, Biasi became well known in his hometown for caricatures published in loc ...

* Mario Biazzi * Mario Biglioli * Osvaldo Bignami * Adriana Bisi Fabbri *

Fulvia Bisi Fulvia Bisi (1818–1911) was an Italian landscape painter. Biography She was born in Milan. Her father, the landscape painter Giuseppe Bisi, had studied under the engraver Giuseppe Longhi; her mother was Ernesta Legnani. She apprenticed with h ...

* Luigi Bisi *

Giovanni Boldini Giovanni Boldini (31 December 1842 – 11 January 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to a 1933 article in ''Time'' magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" becaus ...

Arturo Bonfanti Arturo Bonfanti (24 May, 1905 – 21 January, 1978) was an Italian painter born in Bergamo. Biography Having studied at the Andrea Fantoni art school in Bergamo since 1924, Bonfanti moved to Milan in 1926 and devoted his energies to graphic art ...

* Leonardo Borgese *

Pompeo Borra Pompeo Borra (1898 – 1973) was an Italian painter. Biography Pompeo Borra was born in Milan His studies were varied: first he attended technical schools and then, briefly, the course in decoration at the Scuola degli Artefici at the Brera Acade ...

Odoardo Borrani Odoardo Borrani (22 August 1833 – 14 September 1905) was an Italian painter associated with the Macchiaioli group. Biography He was born in Pisa. The Borrani family moved to Florence, where Odoardo enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1853. ...

* Timo Bortolotti * Carlo Bozzi * Giovanni Brancaccio * Gastone Breddo * Cesare Breveglieri * Luigi Brignoli * Remo Brindisi *

Anselmo Bucci Anselmo Bucci (25 May 1887 – 19 November 1955) was an Italian painter and printmaker. Biography Bucci was born in Fossombrone. Having attended the Brera Academy in Milan from 1904 to 1905, he moved to Paris with Leonardo Dudreville in 1906. ...

* Vittorio Bussolino ;C * Guido Cadorin * Alberto Caligiani * Ercole Calvi * Pompeo Calvi * Gianfranco Campestrini * Carlo Canella * Giuseppe Canella *

Pietro Canonica Pietro Canonica (1 March 1869 – 8 June 1959) was an Italian sculptor, painter, opera composer, professor of arts and senator for life. Biography He was born in Moncalieri, a town in the Province of Turin, northern Italy. His long and prest ...

* Antonio Canova * Innocente Cantinotti * Giovanni Bernardo Carbone *

Filippo Carcano Filippo Carcano (Milan, 1840–1914) was an Italian painter. Biography A pupil of Francesco Hayez at the Brera Academy in Milan as from 1855, Carcano won the Canonica Prize with a work on a historical subject in 1862, while experimenting in the ...

* Francesco Carini *

Luca Carlevarijs Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris (20 January 1663 – 12 February 1730) was an Italian painter and engraver working mainly in Venice. He pioneered the genre of the cityscapes (''vedute'') of Venice, a genre that was later widely followed by artis ...

Giovanni Carnovali Giovanni Carnovali (29 September 1804 – 5 July 1873), known as Il Piccio ('the little one'), was an Italian painter. Biography Carnovali was born in Montegrino Valtravaglia (Varese). In 1815, at the age of just 11, he was admitted to the ...

Aldo Carpi Aldo Carpi (6 October 1886 – 27 March 1973) was an Italian artist, painter and writer, author of a collection of memoirs concerning his imprisonment in the infamous Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Biography Born in Milan, early in his you ...

* Guido Carrer *

Rosalba Carriera Rosalba Carriera (12 January 1673 – 15 April 1757) was a Venetian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. Carriera would later become known for her pastel portraits, helping popularize the medium in eigh ...

* Michele Cascella * Daphne Casorati Maugham *

Giannino Castiglioni Giannino Castiglioni (4 May 1884 – 27 August 1971) was an Italian sculptor and medallist. He worked mostly in monumental and funerary sculpture; his style was representational, and far from the modernist and avant-garde trends of the earl ...

Vincenzo Catena Vincenzo Catena (c. 1480–1531) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance Venetian school. He is also known as Vincenzo de Biagio. Life Nothing is known of the date and place of Catena's birth. The earliest known record of him is in an inscr ...

(bottega di) * Achille Cattaneo * Luigi Cauda *

Ludovico Cavaleri Ludovico Cavaleri (1867–1942) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born in Milan. A self-taught member of the school of Lombard Naturalism in its last stages, Cavalieri abandoned his medical studies in 1888 to devote himself exclusively to p ...

* Attilio Cavallini * Carlo Ceresa * Giuseppe Cerrina *

Gaetano Chierici Gaetano Chierici (1838–1920) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre works. Biography He was born in Reggio Emilia, and attended the Reggio Emilia School of Fine Arts in 1850 and 1851. Chierici continued his studies at the academies of Modena a ...

* Beppe Ciardi *

Emma Ciardi Emma Ciardi (1879–1933) was an Italian painter. Biography Ciardi was born in Venice. Following in the footsteps of her father Guglielmo and brother Beppe, Emma Ciardi began painting as an adolescent and exhibited for the first time in 1900 at ...

* Guglielmo Ciardi * Antonio Cifrondi * Virginio Ciminaghi *

Pier Francesco Cittadini Pierfrancesco Cittadini (1616–1681) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and noted for his portraits and lush still lifes. Biography Initially a pupil of Daniele Crespi, Cittadini moved to Bologna before the ...

Viviano Codazzi Viviano Codazzi (c. 1604 – 5 November 1670) was an Italian architectural painter who was active during the Baroque period. He is known for his architectural paintings, capricci, compositions with ruins, and some ''vedute''. He worked in Na ...

* Florin Codre * Enrico Coleman * Augusto Colombo * Giovanni Colombo (painter) * Adone Comboni * Gigi Comolli *

Luigi Conconi Luigi Conconi (Milan, 1852–1917) was an Italian painter, who is considered part of the Scapigliatura movement. Biography Luigi Conconi graduated from the Milan Polytechnic in 1874 and started work as an architect, a career that he combined f ...

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* Raffaello Consortini * Aldo Conti * Alfonso Corradi * Salvatore Corvaya * Gino Cosentino * Ettore Cosomati * Giovanni Costa *

Jacques Courtois Jacques Courtois or Giacomo Cortese, called il Borgognone or le Bourguignon (12 ?December 162114 November 1676) was a Franche-Comtois–Italian painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He was mainly active in Rome and Florence and became known as th ...

Giuseppe Maria Crespi Giuseppe Maria Crespi (March 14, 1665 – July 16, 1747), nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo ("The Spaniard"), was an Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. His eclectic output includes religious paintings and portraits, but he is now most ...

* Carlo Cressini * Luigi Crippa ;D *

Edoardo Dalbono Eduardo Dalbono (10 December 1841 – 23 August 1915) was an Italian painter born in Naples. Biography The son of a writer and art critic father and poet mother, Edoardo Dalbono attended the Royal Institute of Fine Arts in Naples in 1853, but le ...

* Angelo Dall'Oca Bianca * Giovanni Stefano Danedi *

Arturo Dazzi Arturo Dazzi (13 July 1881 – 16 October 1966) was an Italian painter and sculptor. Biography Dazzi was born in Carrara and attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara from 1892 to 1899, studying under sculptor Lio Gangeri. In 1901 he w ...

* Sebastiano De Albertis * Cristoforo De Amicis * Domenico De Bernardi * Nicolas De Corsi * Fernando De Filippi * Raffaele De Grada *

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Pedro De Mena Pedro de Mena y Medrano (August 1628 - 13 October 1688) was a Spanish sculptor. Biography Pedro de Mena was born in Granada, Andalusia. He was a pupil of his father Alonso de Mena as well as of Alonzo Cano. His first success was achieved in work ...

* Filippo De Pisis * Francesco De Rocchi * Jules Jean-Baptiste Dehaussy * Mario Della Foglia * Lorenzo Delleani *

Michele Desubleo Michele Desubleo (1601–1676), also called ''Michele Fiammingo'' (Flemish) or ''Michele di Giovanni de Sobleau'', was a Flemish painter active in Central and North Italy during the Baroque era. Biography Born in Maubeuge in 1601, Desubleo prob ...

* Beppe Devalle * Filippo Teodoro di Liagno * Alfredo Di Romagna * Adriano Di Spilimbergo *

Antonio Discovolo Antonio Discovolo (1874–1956) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born in Bologna. After studying at the academies of Florence and Lucca from 1891 to 1896, Discovolo moved to Rome in 1899 and came into contact with Nino Costa and the Symb ...

Gaspare Diziani Gaspare Diziani (1689 – 17 August 1767) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Roccoco period, active mainly in the Veneto but also in Dresden and Munich. The artist's canvas is the largest painting of the Hermitage Museum in St. Peters ...

* Carlo Donelli *

Antonio Donghi Antonio Donghi (March 16, 1897 – July 16, 1963) was an Italian painter of scenes of popular life, landscapes, and still life. Biography Born in Rome, he studied painting at the Instituto di Belle Arti from 1908 to 1916.Gale, Oxford Art O ...

Leonardo Dudreville Leonardo Dudreville (4 April 1885 – 13 January 1975) was a Venetian-born Italian painter. He was one of the founders of the ''Nuove tendenze'' as well as of '' Novecento'' Italian art movements. Biography His family of Belgian origin moved to M ...

Gaspard Dughet Gaspard Dughet (15 June 1615 – 25 May 1675), also known as Gaspard Poussin, was a French painter born in Rome. Life Dughet was born in Rome, the son of a French pastry-cook and his Italian wife. He has always generally been considered as a Fr ...

;E * Giuseppe Elena * Giovanni Antonio Emanueli ;F * Fabio Fabbi * Guido Farina * Gennaro Favai * Giacomo Favretto * Charles Fayod * Gino Federici * Adolfo Feragutti Visconti *

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* Arturo Ferrari * Carlo Ferrari * Giuseppe Ferrata * Tano Festa *

Francesco Filippini Francesco Filippini (18 September 1853 – 6 March 1895) was an Italian painter from Lombardy. He was much influenced by Tranquillo Cremona. Life Filippini was born in Brescia, in Lombardy in northern Italy, on 18 September 1853, into a p ...

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* Napoleone Giovanni Fiumi *

Alessandro Focosi Alessandro Focosi (June 14, 1836 – February 1, 1869) was an Italian painter born in Milan. Biography The son of the painter and illustrator Roberto Focosi, Alessandro completed his artistic training at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where Franc ...

* Pietro Foglia *

Enrico Fonda Enrico Fonda (1892– 1929) was an Italian painter born in Fiume (now in Croatia). Biography Fonda was a student at the art academies of Budapest and Munich when he was young man. After World War I he visited Florence, where he studied the painti ...

* Achille Formis *

Piero Fornasetti Piero Fornasetti (Milan, 10 November 1913 – Milan, 15 October 1988) was an Italian artist and designer. Biography Piero Fornasetti was born in 1913 into a well-off. middle-class family in Milan. A multifaceted figure in the Italian desig ...

* Andrea Fossombrone *

Innocenzo Fraccaroli Innocenzo Fraccaroli (1805, in Castelrotto di Valpolicella (Verona) – 1882, in Milan) was an Italian sculptor. A student at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, Fraccaroli was the winner of the Brera Academy’s prize for sculpture in 1829. This ...

* Pietro Fragiacomo * Felicita Frai * Umberto Franzosi * Vittore Frattini * Ernst Freiesleben *

Émile Friant Émile Friant (16 April 1863 – 9 June 1932) was a French artist. Friant was born in the commune of Dieuze. He would later be forced to flee to Nancy by the encroachment of the Kingdom of Prussia's soldiers. He exhibited paintings througho ...

* Donato Frisia * Achille Funi ;G * Giacomo Gandi *

Vincenzo Gemito Vincenzo Gemito (July 16, 1852 – March 1, 1929) was an Italian sculptor and artist. Although he worked in various studios of well-known artists in his native Naples, Rome and Paris, he is considered to have largely been self-taught, the reason ...

Franco Gentilini Franco Gentilini (Faenza (Ravenna), 1909 – Rome, 1981) was an Italian painter. Biography Franco Gentilini worked as a ceramist in Faenza and collaborated with Giovanni Romagnoli and Giorgio Morandi in Bologna. He took part in numerous editions ...

Melchiorre Gherardini Melchiorre Gherardini (1607–1668), known as Ceranino, was an Italian painter. Biography Born in Milan in 1607, Gherardini was closely linked in his artistic career to Giovan Battista Crespi, known as Cerano, his master and father-in-law. On ...

* Eugenio Gignous * Lorenzo Gignous * Luigi Gioli *

Luca Giordano Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Earl ...

* Bartolomeo Giuliano * Piero Giunni *

Francesco Gnecchi Francesco Gnecchi (8 September 1847, Milan – 15 June 1919, Rome) was an Italian painter and numismatist. Biography Born into a wealthy family in the silk trade, the artist initially studied law at the University of Pavia before enlisting as a v ...

* Emilio Gola * Marco Gozzi * Giovanni Grande * Nicola Grassi * Ottavio Grolla * Giannino Grossi *

Giacomo Grosso Giacomo Grosso (23 May 1860 in Cambiano – 14 January 1938 in Turin) was an Italian painter. Biography After spending his childhood at Glaveno seminary, Giacomo Grosso enrolled at the Accademia Albertina in Turin in 1873, thanks to a schola ...

Orazio Costante Grossoni Orazio Costante Grossoni (Milan, 1867–1952) was an Italian sculptor. Biography Grossoni studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan with Raffaele Casnedi and Ambrogio Borghi and worked in the studio of the sculptor Ernesto Bazzaro. He ...

* Kriss Guenzati Dubini * Giuseppe Guerreschi * Sergio Guerreschi * Virgilio Guidi * Bartolomeo Guidobono *

Renato Guttuso Renato Guttuso (26 December 1911 – 18 January 1987) was an Italian painter and politician. His best-known works include ''Flight from Etna'' (1938–39), ''Crucifixion'' (1941) and ''La Vucciria'' (1974). Guttuso also designed for the theatre ( ...

* Beppe Guzzi ;H *

Francesco Hayez Francesco Hayez (; 10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and ...

;I * Domenico Induno *

Gerolamo Induno Gerolamo Induno (13 December 1825 – 18 December 1890) was an Italian painter and soldier, best known for his military scenes. His older brother, Domenico, was also a well-known artist and they often worked together. Biography He was born in Mi ...

* Angelo Inganni * Vincenzo Irolli ;J * Pio Joris * Italo Josz ;K * Ivan Karpoff * Hermann Kern ;L * Dino Lanaro *

Andrea Lanzani Andrea Lanzani (c.1645 – 30 May 1712) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Biography Born in Milan in 1641, Lanzani initially apprenticed in the workshop of Luigi Scaramuccia, where he met Andrea Pozzo, a marked influence on hi ...

* Cesare Laurenti * Giovanni Battista Lelli * Umberto Lilloni * Fausto Locatelli * Raffaello Locatelli *

Francesco Lojacono Francesco Lojacono or Lo Jacono (1838–1915) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes and seascapes, and mainly active in his native Palermo, Sicily. Biography He received his early training there with his father Luigi, a history and portrai ...

* Emilio Longoni * Alessandro Lupo ;M * Maestro dei fiori guardeschi *

Cesare Maggi Cesare Maggi (Rome, 1881 – Turin, 1961) was an Italian painter. Biography Born into a family of actors, Maggi embarked on classical studies at his father’s wish but also took up painting at a very early age, first with the Livornese artist Vi ...

Giuseppe Maggiolini Giuseppe Maggiolini (13 November 1738 – 16 November 1814), himself a marquetry-maker (''intarsiatore''), was the pre-eminent cabinet-maker (''ebanista'') in Milan in the later 18th century. Though some of his early work is Late Baroque in manner ...

* Emilio Magistretti * Giovanni Maimeri * Vincenzo Malò * Gianfranco Manara * Antonio Mancini * Carlo Mancini *

Francesco Mancini (1830–1905) Francesco Mancini (Naples, 1830–1905) was an Italian painter. Biography In 1844 Francesco Mancini became a student at the Naples Royal Institute of Fine Arts, where he studied drawing and attended Gabriele Smargiassi’s course on landscape ...

* Enrico Manfrini * Luigi Mantovani * Giuseppe Manzone *

Giacomo Manzù Giacomo Manzù, pseudonym of Giacomo Manzoni (22 December 1908 – 17 January 1991), was an Italian sculptor. Biography Manzù was born in Bergamo. His father was a shoemaker. Other than a few evening art classes, he was self-taught in s ...

* Anacleto Margotti *

Pompeo Mariani Pompeo Mariani (9 September 1857, Monza – 25 January 1927, Bordighera) was an Italian painter. Biography Mariani was born in Monza, Province of Milan. The nephew of the painter Mosè Bianchi, he abandoned a career in banking to devote himsel ...

* Piero Martina *

Arturo Martini Arturo Martini (1889–1947) was a leading Italian sculptor between World War I and II. He moved between a very vigorous (almost ancient Roman) classicism and modernism. He was associated with public sculpture in fascist Italy, but later renounc ...

Carlo Martini Carlo Martini (1908–1958) was an Italian painter and academician. Biography He studied in Brera Academy of Milan under the tutelage of Aldo Carpi. He moved to England in 1938. He lived in London and Glasgow. He came back in Italy in 1940 due ...

* Guido Marussig * Ennio Marzano * Arrigo Renato Marzola * Giuseppe Mascarini * Aldo Mazza * Giuseppe Menato * Ilario Mercanti *

Francesco Messina Francesco Messina (15 December 1900 – 13 September 1995) was an Italian sculptor of the 20th century. Biography and career Francesco Messina was born at Linguaglossa in the Province of Catania from a very poor family. Growing up in Genoa, where ...

Francesco Paolo Michetti Francesco Paolo Michetti (October 2, 1851 – March 5, 1929) was an Italian painter known especially for his genre works. Biography He was born in Tocco da Casauria in the Province of Chieti. His father having died when he was a boy, Michetti ...

Giovanni Migliara Giovanni Migliara (October 15, 1785 in Alessandria – April 18, 1837 in Milan), was a nobleman and Italian painter active at the beginning of the 19th century, painting vedute and history paintings. Biography Born to artisan parents of limit ...

Vincenzo Migliaro Vincenzo Migliaro (1858–1938) was an Italian painter born in Naples. Biography After learning the art of wood carving at courses held by the Società Centrale Operaia Napoletana and working in the studio of Stanislao Lista, Migliaro enrolled ...

* Alessandro Milesi * Arrigo Minerbi *

Federico Moja Federico Moja (October 20, 1802 – March 29, 1885) was an Italian people, Italian painter, known best for his vedute and views of interior architecture. Biography Born in Milan into a family of artists, Moja began studying at the Brera Academy o ...

Giuseppe Molteni Giuseppe Molteni (Affori, Milan, 1800 – Milan, 1867) was an Italian painter. Biography Forced to abandon his studies at the Brera Academy for financial reasons, Molteni took up the restoration of ancient paintings as a pupil of Giuseppe Guizz ...

* Giuseppe Montanari *

Cesare Monti Cesare Monti (5 May 1593 – 16 August 1650) was an Italian Cardinal who served as Latin Patriarch of Antioch and Archbishop of Milan. Early life Cesare Monti was born on 5 May 1593 in Milan to the patrician family of Princivalle Monti an ...

* Umberto Montini *

Angelo Morbelli Angelo Morbelli ( Alessandria, 1853 – Milan, 1919) was an Italian painter of the Divisionist style. Biography A grant from the City Council of Alessandria enabled Morbelli to enrol at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, in 1867. He was awa ...

* Foggia Mario Moretti * Antonio Moretti * Gino Moro * Marzio Moro * Cesarina Mottironi * Gabriele Mucchi * Pieter Mulier * Giulio Vito Musitelli ;N * Carlo Nangeroni * Giovanna Nascimbene Tallone * Renato Natali * Gerolamo Navarra *

Mario Nigro Mario Nigro ( Pistoia, 28 June 1917 – Livorno, 11 August 1992) was an Italian painter. Biography Nigro was born in Pistoia but he moved with his family to Livorno in 1929 when he was 12. He graduated in chemistry and pharmacology at the ...

* Charles Francois Nivard *

Plinio Nomellini Plinio Nomellini (1866–1943) was an Italian painter. Biography Nomellini was born in Livorno in 1866. In 1885 he enrolled at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Giovanni Fattori and formed friendships with Telemaco Sign ...

Luigi Nono Luigi Nono (; 29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music. Biography Early years Nono, born in Venice, was a member of a wealthy artistic family; his grandfather was a notable painter. Nono beg ...

Pietro Novelli Pietro Novelli (March 2, 1603 – August 27, 1647) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Palermo. Also known as ''il Monrealese'' or ''Pietro "Malta" Novelli'' to distinguish him from his father, Pietro Antonio Novelli I ...

* Giuseppe Novello ;O * Augusto Ortolani *

Pasquale Ottino Pasquale Ottino or Ottini (1578 in Verona – 1630 in Verona), was an Italian painter. Biography Ottino was a pupil, alongside Alessandro Turchi, in the studio of Felice Brusasorci. After the master's death in 1605, he completed alongside Turch ...

;P * Carlo Paganini * Eleuterio Pagliano *

Giuseppe Palanti Giuseppe Palanti (30 July 1881 – 23 April 1946) was an Italian painter, illustrator, and urban planner, best known for his portraits, notably of Mussolini and Pius XI. He had a long collaboration with Teatro alla Scala in Milan, creating c ...

Filippo Palizzi Filippo Palizzi (1818 – 1899) was an Italian painter. Biography Filippo Palizzi was born in Vasto (Chieti). He moved to Naples in 1837 and enrolled at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts, but withdrew after a few months to attend the private sch ...

Giuseppe Palizzi Giuseppe Palizzi (Lanciano (Chieti), 1812 – Paris, 1888) was an Italian painter. Biography Giuseppe Palizzi moved to Naples in 1835 and enrolled at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts, where he came into contact with the painters of the Posillipo ...

* Laura Panno * Gilda Pansiotti Cambon D'Amico * Pierluigi Parzini * Arturo Pasetto * Antonio Pasinetti * Lazzaro Pasini * Ezio Pastorio * Angelo Pavan * Riccardo Pellegrini * Ugo Piatti * Antonio Piccinni * Orazio Pigato * Ernesto Pirovano * Carlo Pizzi *

Lodovico Pogliaghi Lodovico Pogliaghi (Milan, 1857 – S. Maria del Monte, Varese, 1950) was an Italian painter, sculptor and decorator. Biography Lodovico Pogliaghi was born to an upper middle class Milanese family. He was enrolled at the Brera Academy at a very y ...

* Silvio Poma * Giuseppe Ponga *

Giacomo Antonio Ponsonelli Giacomo Antonio Ponsonelli (1654–1735) was an Italian late- Baroque sculptor. Born in Massa Carrara, where he first worked under his father, Giovanni Ponsonelli, a sculptor, in Finale Liguria and Savona. He worked in Genoa under his father-in ...

* Giuseppe Porta (painter 1807) * Walter Pozzi * Luigi Prada * Attilio Pratella * Carlo Preda * Luigi Premazzi *

Gaetano Previati Gaetano Previati (1852 – 1920) was an Italian Symbolist painter in the Divisionist style. Biography Previati was born in Ferrara. He relocated to Milan in 1876 and enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, studying under Giuseppe Bertini, G ...

Giulio Cesare Procaccini Giulio Cesare Procaccini (1574–1625) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early Baroque era in Milan. Biography Born in Bologna he was son of the Mannerist painter Ercole Procaccini the Elder and brother of Camillo Procaccini and Car ...

Scipione Pulzone Scipione Pulzone (1544 – February 1, 1598), also known as Il Gaetano, was a Neapolitan painter of the late Italian Renaissance. His work differs in several respects from the Mannerist style predominant at the time. He was active mainly in Ro ...

;Q * Gianni Quaglio * Luigi Querena ;R * Ambrogio Raffele * Aldo Raimondi * Camillo Rapetti * Richard Reinagle Ramsay * Gian Piero Restellini * Leonardo Roda * Alonzo Rodriguez *

Pietro Ronzoni Pietro Ronzoni (1781 in Sedrina, Bergamo – 1861 in Bergamo) was an Italian painter. Biography Trained in Rome under the guidance of the landscape painter Luigi Campovecchio from Mantua, Ronzoni met Angelica Kauffman and Antonio Canova and forme ...

Johann Heinrich Roos Johann Heinrich Roos (29 September 1631, Otterberg – 3 October 1685, Frankfurt) was a German Baroque era landscape painter and etcher. Biography His family had emigrated to Amsterdam due to the Thirty Years' War in 1640.