Ambrogio Casati (December 27, 1897 – July 19, 1977) was an Italian
painter
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.
He was born in
Voghera
The Castle of Voghera in a 19th-century etching.
Voghera ( Vogherese dialect of Emilian: ''Vughera''; Latin: ''Forum Iulii Iriensium'') is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy. The population was 39,374 ...
,
Italy
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in 1897 and was schooled in
Paris
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in the plastic arts. Upon his return to Italy, he became associated with
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (; 22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye d ...
and the
Futurist
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movement that was gaining force in the Italian arts scene of the time. His best-known pieces include ''The Dance of the Chairs'' (1931) and ''Portrait of Marinetti'' (1927). Casati was also the mentor of the future computer art pioneer
Aldo Giorgini.
Casati died in
Pavia
Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capit ...
in 1977.
1897 births
1977 deaths
People from Voghera
Italian Futurist painters
20th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
19th-century Italian male artists
20th-century Italian male artists
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