Vincenzo Cecere (1897–1955) was an Italian painter, active in a Realist style. Exhibition of ''Artisti dell'agro aversano tra Ottocento e primo Novecento (1790-1922)''
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Biography

He was born in

Aversa Aversa () is a city and ''comune'' in the Province of Caserta in Campania, southern Italy, about 24 km north of Naples. It is the centre of an agricultural district, the ''Agro Aversano'', producing wine and cheese (famous for the typical bu ...

and initially a pupil of

Luigi Pastore Luigi Pastore (Aversa, Province of Caserta, May 24, 1834 - January 19, 1913) was an Italian painter. Born to working-class parents, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, and painted mainly landscapes, historic and sacred subjects, or N ...

, but later enrolled at the Institute of Geometry of

Caserta Caserta () is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial, and industrial ''comune'' and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Camp ...

. He served as a soldier in the Austrian front, followed by an exile in Marseille due to his political leanings. He returned to earn a diploma in Naples only by the 1930s. He painted ''Dopo il bagno'', a subject previously treated by the

Scapigliatura ''Scapigliatura'' () is the name of an artistic movement that developed in Italy after the Risorgimento period (1815–71). The movement included poets, writers, musicians, painters and sculptors. The term Scapigliatura is the Italian equivalent of ...

painter Girolamo Induno. He painted a ''Portrait of this cousin Amelia'', ''Un bue al pascolo'', ''Head of a Dog'', and ''Portrait of a Girl'', likely his cousin Ersilia. He also wrote poetry in Italian and dialect.

References

1897 births 1955 deaths 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Naples Italian genre painters 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub