Domenico Gnoli
Domenico Gnoli (3 May 1933 – 17 April 1970) was an Italian painter and stage designer, born in Rome. He studied stage design at the Accademia di Belle Arti, and began a short stint designing stages, for which he was well received. Following this, he spent the better part of his life in New York City, working for magazines such as Sports Illustrated, and Fortune, where he found favour with art director Leo Lionni.
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Domenico Gnoli
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- Name
- Domenico Gnoli
- Born
- 3 May 1933
- Birthplace
- Rome, Italy
- Died
- 17 April 1970
- Known for
- Painting Stage design
- Nationality
- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
- Occupation
- painter · scenographer · illustrator · draftsperson · artist · sculptor · designer
- Languages
- English · French · Italian
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Domenico Gnoli (3 May 1933 – 17 April 1970) was an Italian painter and stage designer, born in Rome. He studied stage design at the Accademia di Belle Arti, and began a short stint designing stages, for which he was well received. Following this, he spent the better part of his life in New York City, working for magazines such as Sports Illustrated, and Fortune, where he found favour with art director Leo Lionni.
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He is known most for his work "Orestes or The Art of Smiling".
The recorded working language is English, French and Italian. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City, Deià and Rome. Works named in the authority record are Vestito a fiori azzurri, La tasca della giacca, Ladies Shoe, Vestito estivo, Armchair No. 2 and Left Side Partition. Work by Domenico Gnoli is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Art Institute of Chicago, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Museum of Modern Art and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
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Key facts
• Name — Domenico Gnoli • Born — 3 May 1933 • Birthplace — Rome, Italy • Died — 17 April 1970 • Known for — Painting Stage design
Biography
Biography
Son of ceramicist Annie de Garrou (1900–1994) and Umberto Gnoli, who was an art historian and superintendent of arts in Umbria, Domenico Gnoli was born in Rome in 1933. His sister Marzia was born the following year. Gnoli's paternal grandfather was the poet and historian of the same name – Domenico Gnoli. His great-aunts were also poets, Teresa Gnoli and Elena Gnoli. His paternal uncle, Tommaso (1874–1958) was a literary critic and expert on German culture. The cultural influence of his family created in Gnoli, as he grew up, a passion for drawing and painting. Illustrating this, his father sent him a letter, when Gnoli was just 10 years old, that contained architectural lessons. Gnoli spent his first years in Rome and Spoleto. He made a series of surrealist drawings, one of which – depicting a sea creature in a snail's shell on a couch – is often confused with Edward Gorey's work. Because of his death at the age of 36 from cancer, there are very few mature works by him held in public collections. The vast majority of his major works are held by private collectors in Italy. One estimate places the number of mature paintings at only 140.
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Origins and background
The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1933 at Rome. It is also recorded that domenico Gnoli died in 1970 at New York City.
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- 1.cita Lettere e scritti p. 89 .
- 2.cita Soutif, Pezzato p. 8 .
- 3.Cita Sgarbi. Franco Maria Ricci 1985 p. 28 .
- 4.cita Soutif, Pezzato .
- 5.La fiammata.
- 6.Mario Ciriello. Giovane romano conquista l'Old Vic. Stampa Sera. 22 marzo 1955.
- 7.Cita Sgarbi. Franco Maria Ricci p. 34 .
- 8.Cita Sgarbi. Franco Maria Ricci p. 42 .
- 9.cita Lettere e scritti p. 41 .
- 10.cita Lettere e scritti p. 122 .
- 11.Woman sole in bath tub.
- 12.Domenico Gnoli, opere.
- 13.Domenico Gnoli: Detail of a Detail. 3 may - 13 july 2018.
- 14.Riconoscimento alla mostra di Domenico Gnoli a Spoleto. http://www.artslife.com. 28 giugno 2017.
- 15.Domenico Gnoli. 28 Ott 2021 – 27 Feb 2022.
- 16.Cita Sgarbi. Franco Maria Ricci 1985 p. 23 .
- 17.MSBB-Museo Sa Bassa Blanca.
- 18.Domenico Gnoli.
- 19.Domenico Gnoli.
- 20.Domenico Gnoli, costume design.
- 21.Domenico Gnoli.
- 22.Domenico Gnoli.
- 23.Venne selezionato nel 1966 come uno dei cinquanta più bei libri del 1965 dall'American Institute of graphic arts. Cf.:
- 24.Daniel Defoe. Journal of a Plague Year. 1968.
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