Cesare Viazzi (1857 – 1943) was an Italian painter.

Biography

Born in

Alessandria Alessandria (; pms, Lissandria ) is a city and ''comune'' in Piedmont, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria. The city is sited on the alluvial plain between the Tanaro and the Bormida rivers, about east of Turin. Alessandria ...

, he was initially a student of the sculptor and architect

Angelo Cavanna Angelo is an Italian masculine given name and surname meaning "angel", or "messenger". People People with the given name *Angelo Accattino (born 1966), Italian prelate of the Catholic Church *Angelo Acciaioli (bishop) (1298–1357), Italian Ro ...

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. He then became a pupil of

Andrea Gastaldi Andrea Gastaldi (April 18, 1826 – January 9, 1889) was an Italian painter, primarily of historical canvases and portraits. Biography Gastaldi was born and died in Turin, Piedmont. He studied at the Accademia Albertina under Michele Cusa, ...

, first in Rome then at the

Accademia Albertina The Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti ("Albertina Academy of Fine Arts") is an institution of higher education in Turin, Italy History In the first half of the seventeenth century, there was a "University of Painters, Sculptors and Architects" ...

in Turin. In 1893, he was named professor of the

Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti The Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti is a tertiary academy of fine arts located in Genoa, Italy. It also houses a museum (Museo dell'Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti), which includes works of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Giuseppe Abbati, Anto ...

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. Among his pupils was Pietro Gaudenzi. In Genoa, he was known for his portraits, but also completed large fresco or decorative cycles, including for the Società promotrice di Belle Arti, Palazzo Raggio in via Balbi, Castello Raggio a Cornigliano, Villa Weil, and the Villa Bisio in Albaro. He painted sacred subjects for chapels in the

Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno The Cimitero monumentale di Staglieno is an extensive monumental cemetery located on a hillside in the district of Staglieno of Genoa, Italy, famous for its monumental sculpture. Covering an area of more than a square kilometre, it is one of the ...

."Due tele di Cesare Viazzi donate alla Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice"
Comune di Genova. Retrieved 22 October 2013. At the 1883 Exposition of Rome, he exhibited a canvas of ''Il Beccaio''. In the 1884 Turin, exhibition, he displayed: ''La vanità nei campi''; ''Fiori di biancospino''; ''La Scrivia''; ''Il giorno di San Bovo''; ''Ore calde''. In 1887, in Venice: ''Un pescatore sul lago''; ''Idillio''; ''Mar''. In 1888, in Bologna: ''Autunno mesto; Fede; Fiori''. Among other works ''Il Canto del mattino'' and ''Ritorno dai campi'' The contemporary critic Ercole Arturo Marescotti described his paintings at the Promotrice di Genoa:

The paintings of Viazzi portray the truth of the environment: what first impresses the observer: is the truth that most stubbornly look for in the abstruse, in the baroque, and almost despise them for failing to remain modest and simple: the truth of which you can overcome without studying the great and true mastery that is nature: ... Passionate lover of the truth, the atmosphere, but to arrive (there you have) sacrifice (the reality) for the effect, I would say almost to destroy the color found there, Viazzi well shows that what worries him most is not only vulgar effect ... and much less complacency before the intonation: his only care, his only study, is the tone, the totality of the painting. .. He cares very little to talk to the eye, but seeks, puts all his concerns, because his painting speaks to the heart. ''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
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 545-546.

He died in

Predosa Predosa is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about south of Alessandria. Predosa borders the following municipalities: Basaluzzo, Bosco Marengo, Capria ...

in 1943.

References

1857 births 1943 deaths Painters from Genoa 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters 20th-century Italian male artists Accademia Albertina alumni 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub