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Juan Mochi or, in Italian, Giovanni Mochi (1831, in
@ MCN Biografías. Later, Mochi would be recommended as a replacement for Ernesto Kirchbach, the Director of the
@ Artistas Plásticos Chilenos. He arrived in Santiago in 1876 and took up his position as third Director of the Academia. His contract was eventually renewed six times and he remained in that position until his death. He also served on the commission to organize the Museo Nacional de Pintura; becoming the museum's first Director, from 1880 to 1887. As a Professor, he emphasized spontaneity, in contrast to Kirchbach's aggressive approach and the classical conservatism of the Academia's first Director,
Juan Mochi or, in Italian, Giovanni Mochi (1831, in Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...
– 1892, in Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...
) was an Italian painter who spent sixteen years as a Professor in Chile and influenced the artists who came to be known as the Great Chilean Masters.
Biography
He began his artistic studies in his hometown and set up a studio there, achieving some local fame doing paintings inGreco-Roman
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and Renaissance
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style. Later, he moved to Rome, where he came to know the Chilean politician, , who would play a decisive role in his career. Gallo took some of Mochi's paintings to Chile and, when Mochi moved to Paris after the Franco-Prussian War, introduced him to a circle of notable people from Chile.Brief Biography@ MCN Biografías. Later, Mochi would be recommended as a replacement for Ernesto Kirchbach, the Director of the
Academy of Painting (Santiago, Chile)
Academy of Painting (), also known as the School of Fine Arts of Santiago ( ''de Santiago''), was a Chilean art school, founded on March 17, 1849 in Santiago, Chile. The school produced many works for the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, wh ...
, who was resigning due to poor health, and he was hired by the novelist Alberto Blest Gana
Alberto Blest Gana (; May 4, 1830 – November 9, 1920) was a Chilean novelist and diplomat, considered the father of Chilean novel. Blest Gana was of Irish and Basque descent.
Biography
He was born in Santiago, the son of an Irishman, Wi ...
, who was serving as the Chilean Ambassador in Paris.Brief Biography@ Artistas Plásticos Chilenos. He arrived in Santiago in 1876 and took up his position as third Director of the Academia. His contract was eventually renewed six times and he remained in that position until his death. He also served on the commission to organize the Museo Nacional de Pintura; becoming the museum's first Director, from 1880 to 1887. As a Professor, he emphasized spontaneity, in contrast to Kirchbach's aggressive approach and the classical conservatism of the Academia's first Director,
Alejandro Ciccarelli
Alejandro Ciccarelli Manzoni, originally Alessandro Ciccarelli (25 January 1811, Naples - 5 May 1879, Santiago) was an Italian-born Chilean painter and educator. He was the first Director of the Academy of Painting in Santiago, Chile.
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. Among his best-known pupils were Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma
Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma ( Valparaiso, 8 February 1856 – Villejuif, France, 27 October 1909), was one of Chile's best-known painters and one of the four artists known as the Great Chilean Masters.
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He showed a talent and in ...
, Alberto Valenzuela Llanos
Alberto Valenzuela Llanos (San Fernando, Chile, August 29, 1869 – Santiago, Chile, July 23, 1925), was one of Chile's greatest painters and one of the four Great Chilean Masters, along with Pedro Lira, Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma and Juan Fr ...
, Juan Francisco González
Juan Francisco González Escobar (Santiago, Chile, September 25, 1853 – Santiago, March 4, 1933) is known as one of the four Chilean art#The Great Chilean Masters, Great Chilean Masters and as the archetypal romantic bohemian artist of the e ...
, and the sisters Magdalena and Aurora Mira. He continued to paint prolifically; including portraits, landscapes, religious works and scenes from the War of the Pacific.
See also
* Marcos Segundo Maturana * Pedro Lira RencoretReferences
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mochi, Juan 1831 births 1892 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Landscape painters Italian genre painters Painters from Florence Italian emigrants to Chile 19th-century war artists Chilean war artists 19th-century Italian male artists Academy of Painting (Santiago, Chile) faculty