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Giuseppe Guzzardi (December 8, 1845 in
Guzzardi was born in Adernò, now called
Giuseppe Guzzardi (December 8, 1845 in Adrano
Adrano (, scn, Ddirnò), ancient ''Adranon'', is a town and in the Metropolitan City of Catania on the east coast of Sicily.
It is situated around northwest of Catania, which was also the capital of the province to which Adrano belonged, no ...
– September 14, 1914 in Florence
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) was an Italian painter.
Biography
Guzzardi was born in Adernò, now called Adrano
Adrano (, scn, Ddirnò), ancient ''Adranon'', is a town and in the Metropolitan City of Catania on the east coast of Sicily.
It is situated around northwest of Catania, which was also the capital of the province to which Adrano belonged, no ...
. He first trained as a child with a local painter, Vincenzo Costa. His early work showed such promise that the comune
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awarded him a stipend to study in Florence, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts
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under 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, ...
.
In 1874, he first exhibited at the Florentine Promotrice. In 1876 at the Academy in Florence, he exhibited ''The Virgin on Golgotha'' (now in Sanctuary of Maria SS. Ausiliatrice of Adrano). In 1876 he exhibited at the Florentine Promotrice ''Rural Idyll'', which the Artistic Fellowship selected to be copied for distribution to its members. He was also in demand as a portraitist.
In the 1880s, he was named honorary professor at the Academy in Florence. He returned to his hometown of Adrano in 1887, to bring help during a cholera
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium ''Vibrio cholerae''. Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe. The classic symptom is large amounts of watery diarrhea that lasts a few days. Vomiting and ...
epidemic. After the epidemic, he returned to Tuscany and painted landscapes of Sicily, including ''Turiddu'' and ''Carminuzza'', exhibited in 1887 at the Florentine Promotrice, and was awarded a gold medal at the International Exposition in Cologne in 1889.
In 1900, he painted a ''Jesus appears to the Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque
Margaret Mary Alacoque, VHM (french: Marguerite-Marie Alacoque) (22 July 1647 – 17 October 1690), was a French Catholic Visitation nun and mystic who promoted devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in its modern form.
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'' and in 1902, the ''Repentance of Mary Magdalene'' for the Chiesa Madre, Adrano.
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