Mario Borgiotti (22 August 1906 – 19 December 1977) was an Italian painter and

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Biography

Mario Borgiotti was born to a working class family and originally studied violin. In the 1920s he met

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, Gino Romiti, Umberto Vittorini, as well as other members of the

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and became involved in the trade and collection of works of art. In 1925, Borgiotti organised an exhibition of

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which included a large number of Gruppo Labronico painters and in 1927, a combined exhibition of nineteenth-century works and art from Livorno. In 1928, he promoted an exhibition and sale of works by

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at the Bottega d'Arte Calligani in

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, while in 1930 he organised another collective exhibition of Gruppo Labronico and nineteenth-century Italian paintings in

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. He began his apprenticeship as a painter with maestro Giovanni March in the same year, and in 1934 his work was exhibited for the first time at the seventh provincial exhibition of

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. His work as a portraitist sees

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, Giovanni Bartolena,

and Piero Vaccari immortalised in his paintings. In 1938, Borgiotti moved to

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where he organised an exhibition of nineteenth-century art, and in 1946, the Galleria D'Arte

exhibited 46 of his works. Borgiotti joined the Gruppo Labronico in 1953 becoming president in 1967, a position he held for over a decade. In 1953, he founded, along with Nedo Luschi and Renzo Casali, the Premio Rotonda, a prize painting contest at the Rotonda of Ardenza. In 1955, he moved to

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, continuing his artistic career in a studio at Palazzo Gallarati Scotti in

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, then, in 1961, Borgiotti organised the Premio Spalletta, alongside Renato Natali, Bruno Miniati and Aldo Santini in

. In 1963, he was a curator of a Macchiaoli exhibition at Il Grattacielo (English: The Skyscraper) art centre in

. The exhibition moved to

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and from here to the United States. The commune of Livorno dedicated a bust to Borgiotti in the park of Villa Fabbricotti.

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