Eugenio Scomparini (1 September 1845 – 17 March 1913) was an Italian painter.

Biography

He was born in

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...

, and initially took lessons there from the engraver Giovanni Moscotto at the School of Design. His mother, Maria Scomparini, had heralded from Venice. He moved with his friend Antonio Lonza to Venice. In 1863, using a stipend from the city of Trieste, he enrolled at the Accademia of Venice, where he trained with

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and Pompeo Molmenti. In 1873, he was nominated to the Arts council of the

Museo Revoltella The Revoltella Museum ( it, Museo Revoltella) is a modern art gallery founded in Trieste in 1872 by Baron Pasquale Revoltella. The baron, after he left his house to the city (located in Piazza Venezia) and all the works, furniture and books it co ...

, which gave advice on the curation at the Museum. In 1874–77, Scomparini traveled to Rome. He taught from 1887 to 1911 at the industrial School of Trieste. he painted decorations for the Theaters of Trieste,

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, and

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, among others. and for the palazzo Artelli in Trieste. His style recalls Mariano Fortuny and

Hans Makart Hans Makart (28 May 1840 – 3 October 1884) was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator. Makart was a prolific painter whose ideas significantly influenced the development of visual art in Austria-Hungary, Germa ...

. Some his works can be seen in the Revoltella Civic Museum of Trieste.Rivista enciclopedica contemporanea
Editore Francesco Vallardi, Milan, (1913), entry by G Nicodemi, page 159. Among his pupils were Bruno Croatto, Ugo Flumiani, Piero Lucano, Ruggero Rovan,

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, Piero Marussig, Argio Orell, Vito Timmel, Vittorio Bergagna, and

Gino Parin Federico Guglielmo Jehuda Pollack, known as Gino Parin (25 August 1876, in Trieste – 9 June 1944, in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen) was an Italian painter of Jewish ancestry; known primarily for his portraits of women. He was ...

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1845 births 1913 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Painters from Venice Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia alumni Artists from Trieste 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub