Dyalma Stultus (1901–1977)

 

Dyalma Stultus (1901–1977) was an Italian painter and sculptor born in Trieste. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and was influenced by the Renaissance masters, the Macchiaioli, and Symbolist movements. Stultus avoided aligning with specific artistic groups, preferring to develop his own style. His works often depicted landscapes, allegorical compositions, and portraits, blending classical techniques with a modern sensibility.

He exhibited widely, including at the Venice Biennale and in cities like Paris, New York, and Barcelona. Later in life, he taught art in Florence and Siena. Stultus's legacy includes numerous posthumous retrospectives celebrating his contributions to 20th-century Italian art.

Renato Guttuso (Italian, 1911-1987)

 

Portrait of Mimise with the red hat (1938)

oil on canvas

Renato Guttuso was an Italian painter, writer, and politician. He was born on December 26, 1912 in Bagheria, Sicily, Italy and died on January 4, 1987 in Rome, Italy. 

Guttuso was known for his social realist paintings, which often depicted the struggles of the working class and were politically engaged. He was a member of the Italian Communist Party and served as a member of parliament for several years. 

Guttuso's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, and he is considered one of the most important figures in modern Italian art.

Cipriano Efisio Oppo (Italian, 1891-1962)

 

Portrait of a woman sitting in a living-room, 1914
Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm

Cipriano Efisio Òppo (2 July 1891 – 10 January 1962) was an Italian painter, stage designer, satirical illustrator, and critic. He was born in Rome, the city in which he also lived, worked and died, though his father's and mother's families had both come originally from Sardinia. He was an influential and perceptive commentator and mentor in respect of the Italian art scene through the challenges of the Mussolini years. When he was ten Cipriano's father sent him away to a boarding school at Spoleto, hoping thereby to assure the child an education appropriate to his middle-class aspirations. The boy rejected the institutional rigidities that the school sought to impose on him, however, and the arrangement was terminated after four years.

After returning to Rome full-time in 1904, Òppo enrolled at the city's "Royal Higher Academy of Fine Arts" ("Regia Accademia di Belle Arti denominata di San Luca", as it was known before Italy became a republic) in 1946). His studies were focused on learning to paint, exploiting a natural talent that had already been apparent for some years. College contemporaries who in due course became friends included Francesco Trombadori, Amerigo Bartoli and Antonio Maraini. He supported his studies with work at the prestigious commercial art gallery of Giuseppe Sangiorgi which filled a large part of the vast interior at the Palazzo Borghese. Here he "undertook the duties of an apprentice decorator and copyist of classic works under the guidance of Maestro Oreste Morozzi" (who appears to have combined the roles of head gardener and chief curator at the palace). In 1907 he started attending the academy's "Scuola libera del nudo" ("Free School of The Nude") in the Villa Medici, as a result of which he became more closely acquainted with Umberto Boccioni and Mario Sironi.

Òppo's first known paintings come from this period, notably his "triple self-portrait", which is dated 1910.

more on wiki/Cipriano_Efisio_Oppo

Alfredo Protti (Italian, 1882-1949)

 

La maschietta, 1920

bio on https://www.storiaememoriadibologna.it/protti-alfredo-515238-persona

Eduardo Paolozzi

 

Michelangelos's David (1987)

Parrot (1964)

Sandro Botticelli

The Virgin and Child with Saint John and an Ange (detail), 1490

Nicola Simbari, Blue interior

Nicola Simbari (Italian, 1927-2012)

 Blue interior

Laundry day, oil on canvas

more on wiki/Nicola_Simbari

Antonio Donghi - l’Attesa (1933)

l’Attesa (1933)

Antonio Donghi (March 16, 1897 – July 16, 1963) was an Italian painter of scenes of popular life, landscapes, and still life.

wiki/Antonio_Donghi

Bernardino Luini

Madonna and Child (detail)

Tullio Crali

Boats on the Canal 1950s

Tullio Crali (born in Igalo, 1910 – died in Milan, 5 August 2000) was an Italian artist associated with Futurism. A self-taught painter, he was a late adherent to the movement, not joining until 1929. He is noted for realistic paintings that combine "speed, aerial mechanisation and the mechanics of aerial warfare", though in a long career he painted in other styles as well.

Italian artists at the end of 1800

Pietro Scoppetta (Italian, 1863-1920)

Pietro Scoppetta - A bridge on the Seine. Oil on board


 Pompeo Mariani (Monza, Province of Milan. 1857 – Bordighera, Province of Imperia, 1927)

 Pompeo Mariani - The Sailor’s Farewell, 1897

View of Salute in Venice (1908)

Francesco Hayez

 Meditation on the History of Italy

The Meditation

Susanna at Her Bath

Francesco Hayez (10 February 1791 – 21 December 1881) was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Hayez

Giorgio Morandi

Passage, 1913

Autoportrait, 1925

Courtyard on the Via Fondazza, circa 1954

Giorgio Morandi (Bologna, July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers and landscapes.

Artist statement: "I draw inspiration from the Italian Renaissance painters when I think about my compositions and subjects. However, while they focused on luscious fruits and flowers, I believe stripping down these objects to their essential shapes. A balanced composition not only comes from the arrange of objects, but their color and weight. “I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquility and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.”

Felice Casorati

Felice Casorati (Italian, 1886-1963)

Raja, 1925

Vendemmiatrici (1951)

Realismo Magico

Donna vicino al tavolo

Reading a Book

Portrait of Riccardo Gualino

Felice Casorati (December 4, 1883 – March 1, 1963) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker. The paintings for which he is most noted include figure compositions, portraits and still lifes, which are often distinguished by unusual perspective effects (from wikipedia).

Franco Fontana

Paesaggio-urbano- Venice- Los Angeles (1990)

Paesaggio-urbano- Los Angeles (1991)

Puglia, Italy, 1978

Giovanni Fattori (Italian, 1865-67)

Tramonto sul mare (1890-95)

 

Leonardo da Vinci

Head of a Young Woman with Tousled Hair (Leda), 1508

The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right, 1508-12

Head of a Woman

John the Baptist

The power of one- one god, one direction. Perfect expression.

La Belle Ferronière (part.)

Mario Sironi

Il camion giallo (The yellow truck)

Paesaggio Urbano (Urban Landscape)

Testa


Portrait of the Artist’s Sister Marta (1904)

Portrait of Brother Ettore, 1910



The Cyclist (1916)

Mario Sironi (May 12, 1885 – August 13, 1961) was an Italian modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Sironi