Pietro Michis (August 12,

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– November 24, 1903) was an

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painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

, mostly 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 ...

scenes.

Biography

He was a resident of

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, the city of his birth. In 1851 he began studies at the

Brera Academy The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ("academy of fine arts of Brera"), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di ...

under

Giuseppe Bertini Giuseppe Bertini (1825–1898) was an Italian painter, active in his native Milan. Biography He studied at the Brera Academy under Luigi Sabatelli and Giuseppe Bisi, and in 1845 was awarded the ''Gran premio di pittura dell'Accademia di Brera ...

. He married the painter Maria Cattaneo; they often worked together on canvases. He became director of the school of painting in Pavia. Michis mainly painted both pure genre and historic subjects, sometimes called ''genere de costume'' or ''costumed genre''. Among the main works of Michis: in 1887 at Naples, he exhibited ''Fruit of a Diverse Education'', ''Vigil for Epiphany'', and ''The modern pilgrim''; in 1880 at Turin, he exhibited ''L'estremo vale di Leone X a Raffaello'', ''The astrologer

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predicts to

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that he will be defeated at Pavia'', and ''Il racconto del naufrago''; in 1881 at Milan, ''Le beghine'', ''Interior of

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''; in 1883, a portrait of marchese Apollinare Rocca Saporiti della Sforzesca, completed by commission of the Count Marcello Rocca Saporiti della Sforzesca; and in 1884 at Turin, ''Astio antico'' and ''Nel cortile''.Enciclopedia Treccani
entry Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 74 (2010) by Francesco Franco.

References

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