Luigi Rosa (
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 ...
, August 6, 1850 -
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
, 1919) was an Italian painter, mainly of
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 ...
of his native lagoon.
He studied at the Royal
Academy of Fine Arts of Venice
The is a public tertiary academy of art in Venice, Italy.
History
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was founded on 24 September 1750; the statute dates from 1756. The first director was Giovanni Battista Piazzetta; Gianbattista Tiepolo ...
. In 1880 at Turin, he exhibited ''Interior of the Church of the
Frari in Venice'', in 1881 at Milan and Venice: ''Sul
Livenza''; ''Maremma''; ''Un rio''; ''Un campo a Venezia'' e ''Sul
Gorgazzo''. In 1883 exhibited at Rome and Milan: ''Araldi''; ''In Laguna''; ''In the Lagoon after the rain''; ''A
Chioggia''; and ''In Marzo''. In 1884 at Turin, he displayed: ''A Summer Morning in the Lagoon''; ''Venice, Pescheria''; ''Venice, Sul prato''; and ''In principio d'autunno''. In 1887 to Venice, he sent: ''San Marco''; ''Nubi d' estate''; and finally to Bologna, in 1888: ''Venice, Case di Pescatori''; ''Crepuscolo''; and ''Alla
Giudecca''.
''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 430.
His daughter married Gian Francesco Malipiero, the pianist and orchestra director.
References
1850 births
1919 deaths
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
20th-century Italian painters
Painters from Venice
Italian landscape painters
Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia alumni
19th-century Italian male artists
20th-century Italian male artists
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