Giuseppe Ferrari (1840–1905) was an Italian painter.

Biography

After academic studies at

Accademia di San Luca The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fir ...

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under the tutelage of Alessandro Marini, he travelled through Africa and the Middle East, where he found strong suggestions and inspiration for several landscape paintings of those years. In 1877 he moved to

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, where he studied the art of painters as

John Constable John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romanticism, Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedha ...

and William Turner. Ferrari's pupils included Lillie Logan.

Artistic production

Ferrari is considered one of the most important Italian landscape painters of his time. In particular, he used to portray the

campagna romana The Roman Campagna () is a low-lying area surrounding Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy, with an area of approximately . It is bordered by the Tolfa and Sabatini mountains to the north, the Alban Hills to the southeast, and the Tyrrhenia ...

, insomuch as founded with other painters, among which Enrico Coleman and

Cesare Pascarella Cesare Pascarella (28 April 1858 - 8 May 1940), was an Italian dialect poet and a painter. He was appointed to the Royal Academy of Italy in 1930. Pascarella was born in Rome and initially was a painter. His literary activity began in 1881 wit ...

, the group "XXV della campagna romana". In the last years of his life he dedicated to portraits as well.

Exhibits

In 1877 and in 1883 he exhibited at the

Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...

in London. Ferrari participated at the first

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

in 1895, but also in those held in 1905 and 1922 (posthumous participation).

Paintings in museums

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, civic museum; *

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna The ("national gallery of modern and contemporary art"), also known as La Galleria Nazionale, is an art gallery in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1883 on the initiative of the then Minister Guido Baccelli and is dedicated to modern and contempora ...

;M. C. Cola
''Giuseppe Ferrari''
in ''Dizionario biografico degli Italiani Treccani'', volume 46, 1996. *

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, Modern Art Gallery. Ferrari, with Coleman, also realized the

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

s for Villa Durante in Rome in 1891.www.villediroma.com

References

Bibliography

*M. C. Cola
''Giuseppe Ferrari''
in ''Dizionario biografico degli Italiani Treccani'', volume 46, 1996. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrari, Giuseppe 1840 births 1905 deaths Italian landscape painters 19th-century Italian painters 19th-century Italian male artists Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Orientalist painters 20th-century Italian male artists