Alberto Maso Gilli
Illustration — Portrait of Alberto Maso Gilli Alberto Maso Gilli (1840-1894) was an Italian painter, but mainly remembered as an engraver. He was born in Chieri. He trained at the Accademia Albertina.
Alberto Maso Gilli
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- 1894 · Calvi.
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Illustration — Portrait of Alberto Maso Gilli Alberto Maso Gilli (1840-1894) was an Italian painter, but mainly remembered as an engraver. He was born in Chieri. He trained at the Accademia Albertina.
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He painted a number of vistas of landmarks and landscapes around Chieri. He worked with "The Art in Italy" and "The Art", the newspaper of Paris, where he moved in 1873, where he garnered first prize in the engraving section in the International Exhibition of 1878. In 1881 he returned to Turin, to become a professor at the Albertina Academy and, when Federico Pastoris died, he was appointed superintendent of the Art schools in Turin. At the general exhibition of Turin in 1884, he helped design many of the projects. In 1885, he moved to Rome to become Director of Regia Calcografia, and helped establish a school for print engraving.
Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris, Tokyo and Turin. Work by Alberto Maso Gilli is recorded in the collections of Philadelphia Museum of Art and Musea Brugge.
A baby is being taken care of by a nun in a convent. Etching by Alberto Maso Gilli after himself., 1871, by Alberto Maso Gilli
Alberto Maso Gilli · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
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1866
Alberto Maso Gilli born at Chieri.
1894
Alberto Maso Gilli died at Calvi.
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