Emanuele Trionfi (December 1832 – 1900) was an Italian painter and ceramist.
Life and career
Born in Livorno in 1832, he initially studied design in Livorno. From there, he moved to the
Academy of Fine Arts of Florence and studied under professor
Antonio Ciseri
Antonio Ciseri (25 October 1821 – 8 March 1891) was a Swiss-Italian painter of religious subjects.
Biography
He was born in Ronco sopra Ascona, Switzerland. He went to Florence in 1833 to study drawing with Ernesto Bonaiuti. Within a year, ...
.
He became professor of design at the Scuole Tecniche Comunali of Florence. He was an honorary associate of the Academy of Fine Arts of Urbino. He died in Florence in 1900.
Work
He was primarily a painter of genre and figures. In 1860, he painted a portrait of the King for the Italian colony in
Cairo, Egypt
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. He also painted literary subjects from the works of
Byron
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and
Pietro Grossi
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; and a half-figure costume genre of ''Dopo il ballo'' donated to the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence. In the latter, a young woman after a masked ball, lounges in a chair still in her gay costume. Other
genre
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paintings, include ''La Freddolosa'' and ''l'Estate''; and the pair ''Aspettando'' and ''i Preparativi''. He also painted ceramics with still lifes of fruit and game, and small figures. For example, a large plate of ''l'Autunno''.
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 527.
See also
* List of Orientalist artists
This is an incomplete list of artists who have produced works on Orientalist subjects, drawn from the Islamic world or other parts of Asia. Many artists listed on this page worked in many genres, and Orientalist subjects may not have formed a m ...
* Orientalism
In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. In particular, Orientalist p ...
References
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1832 births
1900 deaths
People from Livorno
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian genre painters
Italian costume genre painters
Orientalist painters
Italian potters
Painters from Tuscany
Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze alumni
19th-century Italian male artists