Luigi Pastega (

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

, 1858–1927) was an Italian painter, mainly of

genre Genre () is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other for ...

subjects.

Biography

He was a pupil of

Pompeo Marino Molmenti Pompeo Marino Molmenti (8 November 1819, Villanova in Motta di Livenza – 17 December 1894, Venice) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born in Friuli to Francesco Molmenti, an engineer of comfortable means, who had followed his older brot ...

and

Napoleone Nani Napoleone Nani (1841–1899) was an Italian painter, active in Venice, where he became professor of the Accademia di Belle Arti. Biography He was born in Venice. In 1877 at Naples, he displayed his self-portrait and a canvas titled ''La posa''. ...

at the

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in Venice. He continued to reside in Venice painting

vedute A ''veduta'' (Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''. Origins This genre ...

and

subjects in a style that recalled Giacomo Favretto. At Turin, in 1880, he exhibited: ''Il pasto della gallina''; at Milan, in 1881: ''Sulle fondamenta''; at Venice, in 1881: ''Dame un baso''; at the 1882 Promotrice: ''Il pasto alle galline''; in 1883 at Rome: ''A ti cocoloì''; ''Post prandium''; at Turin, in 1884: ''In un'ora d'ozio'' and ''Pecà esser veci!''. At the 1887 Venice Exhibition, he sent: ''Primi saggi''; ''La sagra al nonno''; to the 1887 and 1888 Promotrice he sent: ''a lettera interessante''; ''Una dichiarazione''; ''La fede di stato libero''; and a ''Amore materno. ''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by

Angelo de Gubernatis Count Angelo De Gubernatis (1840–26 February 1913), Italian man of letters, was born in Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature fourteen times. Life In 1862 he wa ...

. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 357.

References

19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters 1858 births 1927 deaths Painters from Venice Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia alumni Italian genre painters 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub