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Casimiro Radice (15 December 1834 – 1908) was an Italian painter.
Istituto Matteucci
Biography. In the years 1891–1892 he dedicated himself to the decoration of the Church of Santa Agnese in Olginate in the province of Lecco ( church dating back to the mid-1500s but whose interior was profoundly remodeled in 1840), where he painted the paintings in the presbytery with scenes from the martyrdom of Saint Agnese and the medallions of the same presbytery and of the vault, as well as the eight sails above the windows of the nave.
Biography
Radice was born inMilan
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 ...
, Italy. He lived modestly managing a small hotel in the town of Galbiate
Galbiate ( Brianzöö: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about south of Lecco.
Galbiate borders the following municipalities: Annone di Brianza, Civat ...
end died poor. Was self-educated as a painter and painted interesting and graceful works of sacred and genre
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subjects, in both fresco and oil.
In 1881, at the Milan Exhibition, he exhibited with good success ''La visita alla nutrice,'' admired by the public''.'' Still in Milan, in 1883, he displayed ''Supplizio di Tantalo'' and ''Cestello di fiori,'' very well done. In 1884, at the National Exhibition of Turin, he displayed ''Fior di primavera'' and ''Non ti scordar di me''.
A number of ex-voto
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paintings in churches around Milan have been attributed to Radice and to followers of his style.
He painted portrait of the first mayor of Galbiate, now found in the city hall. After the 1870s, he concentrated on genre scenes of rural and rustic countryside, including ''The courtship'', precisely of the year 1870, currently in a private collection in Piacenza; ''The return of the hunter'' in which he paints his own self-portrait in the protagonist, preserved in the Galleria Comunale d'Arte di Lecco; ''Interno of the Cascina Costa dove ebbe il primo nutrimento Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (, , ; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. He is famous for the novel '' The Betrothed'' (orig. it, I promessi sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the maste ...
'' (Interior of farmhouse where the famous writer A. Manzoni was weaned), of the year 1875; ''La festa campestre di San Michele presso Galbiate - versante di Lecco
Lecco (, , ; lmo, label=Lecchese, Lècch ) is a city of 48,131 inhabitants in Lombardy, northern Italy, north of Milan. It lies at the end of the south-eastern branch of Lake Como (the branch is named ''Branch of Lecco'' / ''Ramo di Lecco''). ...
'' (1875); ''La villa S. Bernardino a Galbiate dopo un temporale'' (1879); ''Ritorno dalla filanda'' (1880).Biography. In the years 1891–1892 he dedicated himself to the decoration of the Church of Santa Agnese in Olginate in the province of Lecco ( church dating back to the mid-1500s but whose interior was profoundly remodeled in 1840), where he painted the paintings in the presbytery with scenes from the martyrdom of Saint Agnese and the medallions of the same presbytery and of the vault, as well as the eight sails above the windows of the nave.
References
1834 births 1908 deaths Italian genre painters 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Painters from Milan 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artistsSources
A. M. Comanducci, ''Dizionario illustrato dei pittori disegnatori e incisori italiani'', Patuzzi Editore, Milano, 1962, III edizione, IV volume, p. 1539. ''Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e incisori italiani'', Giorgio Mondadori Editore, Milano, 1983, IX volume (). ''Breve storia della chiesa prepositurale di S. Agnese in Olginate'', edita dalla Parrocchia di Olginate. {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub