Giuseppe Mentessi (29 September 1857 in

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, - 14 June 1931 in

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) was an Italian painter.

Biography

He established himself as a painter in

, where he taught at the

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. He exhibited a triptych of the Madonna at the

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in Venice of 1897. Described as having a ''mystic suavity and spiritual grace'' ''The Italy of the Italians''
By Helen Zimmern, page 117 many of his painters center upon an emotive representation of motherhood. Innocente Cantinotti and

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were among his pupils.

References

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