Brooklyn Museum - The Green Shawl (Lo scialle verde) - Camillo Innocenti - overall

Camillo Innocenti (14 June 1871 – 4 January 1961) was an

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painter born in Rome.

Biography

After he studied in Lyceum, after 1889 he joined the studios of Antonio Mancini in Rome and

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. After a visit to Spain in 1901, he painted local folk subjects from Abruzzo (1904) and

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(1908). At the 1903

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, he displayed his divisionist works with an attention to social topics, alongside

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, Enrico Lionne, and

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. After 1906 he began to focus on painting mainly feminine figures. He was named academic at the

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, and in 1912 he joined the Secessione Romana. He later traveled to

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and

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References

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