Carlo Follini
Illustration — Evening Poetry - from a 1939 postcard Carlo Follini (24 August 1848 – 1938) was an Italian painter, depicting landscapes.
Carlo Follini
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- Born
- Carlo Follini was born on 24 August 1848. · Domodossola.
- Died
- Carlo Follini died, sources differ on the date (on 6 March 1939 and on 6 March 1938). · Pegli.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Italy
- Occupation
- painter · artist
- Fields
- landscape · cityscape
- Education
- Accademia Albertina
- Teachers
- Antonio Fontanesi
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Carlo Follini studied at Accademia Albertina. Training under Antonio Fontanesi is recorded. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape and cityscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Turin, Bologna and Venice. Work by Carlo Follini is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Orsay.
He was born in Domodossola in the Piedmont. He studied accounting in Turin, but chose at the age of 24 years to study painting at the Accademia Albertina, then under the leadership of Antonio Fontanesi. Among his works are: • Campagna napoletana • La siesta • Sui monti • Guado • Canal grande a Venezia • Frasche dorate • Silenzio verde • La dent du Geant In 1883, fifteen studies from nature were exhibited at Rome. He painted Alpine Watering-place held in the National Gallery of Modern Art at Rome. He is said to be one of the prized pupils of Fontanesi, due to his sprezzatura and force and energy of his coloring in his studies from nature. He moved to Bologna to enter military, but went into art studies. He also traveled to Venice, Milan, Florence, and Naples. Among his pupils was Romolo Ubertalli.
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Carlo Follini, a landscapist and painter, was born in 1848 in Domodossola and died in 1938. Both events are recorded by the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
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Carlo Follini was born at Domodossola.
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Carlo Follini died at Pegli.
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- 1.La Biennale di Venezia, Volume 2, by Esposizione biennale 1897, page 110.
- 2.History of Modern Italian Art, by Ashton Rollins Willard (1902), page 645.
- 3.Pittura e scultura in Piemonte 1842–1891: Catalogo cronografico illustrato, By A. Stella, page 500.
- 4.A. Stella, page 501.
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