Eugenio Landesio pta

Training under Károly Markó and Amédée Bourgeois is recorded. José María Velasco Gómez Obregón is recorded as having studied under Eugenio Landesio pta. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome and Turin. Work by Eugenio Landesio pta is recorded in the collections of Museo Soumaya, Museo Nacional de Arte, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Museo Nacional de San Carlos.

Eugenio Landesio was born in 1810 in Altessano, a village near Turin in Italy. Born into a family of silversmiths, he lived in Rome as a child. He became so fond of drawing at an early age that his father resigned himself to the fact that he would be a painter. Landesio began to study landscape painting under the French painter Amédée Bourgeois and went on to become a pupil of the Hungarian landscape painter Károly Markó the Elder.

• Illustration — El Puente de San Antonio en el camino de San Ángel junto a Panzacola, 1855. Like his teacher, Landesio was a Romantic landscape painter, with a tendency to emphasize the sweetness and mellowness of his scenes. His work became known in Mexico when several of his paintings were acquired by the Academy of San Carlos. In January 1855, at the invitation of the Catalan painter Pelegrín Clavé, who was director of the figure painting section of the Academy, he went to Mexico to give classes in landscape, perspective, and the principles of ornamentation. Landesio wrote three books on landscape painting that served as textbooks for the students of the Academy of San Carlos: Los cimientos del artista dibujante y pintor. Compendio de perspectivas lineal y aérea, sombras, espejos y refracción, con las nociones necesarias de geometría (The Foundations of the Draftsman Artist and Painter: A compendium of lineal and aerial perspectives, shadows, mirrors, and refraction, with the necessary notions of geometry, 1866); La pintura general o de paisaje y la perspectiva en la Academia Nacional de San Carlos (General or Landscape Painting and Perspective in the Academy of San Carlos, 1867); and Escursión a la caverna de Cacahuamilpa y ascensión al cráter del Popocatepetl (Excursion to the Cacahuamilpa Cavern and Ascent to the Crater of Popocatépetl, 1868). In 1873, during the administration of President Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, the teachers at the Academy were required to swear adherence to the Reform Laws. Eugenio Landesio refused and had to resign his position. He wanted to be succeeded by José María Velasco, but Ignacio Manuel Altamirano imposed his own candidate, Salvador Murillo, provoking a public dispute between the painter and the novelist.

Amongst his most important works are El Valle de México desde el cerro del Tenayo. The Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Tenayo (1870) part of the Museo Nacional de Arte's Collection and Patio de la Hacienda de Regla. Patio of the Hacienda de Regla (1857).

• Illustration — Page 20 of Excursión a la Caverna de Cacahuamilpa y ascensión al Cráter del Popocatépetl. • Illustration — Page 48 of Excursión a la Caverna de Cacahuamilpa y ascensión al Cráter del Popocatépetl. • Illustration — Page 50 of Excursión a la Caverna de Cacahuamilpa y ascensión al Cráter del Popocatépetl. • Illustration — La hacienda de Colón (The hacienda of Columbus) (1857 - 1858) • Illustration — Antesacristía del convento de San Francisco (Anteacristy of the convent of San Francisco) (1855) • Illustration — El Valle de México desde el cerro de Tenayo (The Valley of Mexico from the hill of Tenay) (1870) • Illustration — San Juan en la Isla de Patmos (San Juan in the island of Patmos) • Illustration — Patio de la Hacienda de Regla (Courtyard of the Hacienda de Regla) (1857) Picture of the collection of Museo Soumaya

Eugenio Landesio pta is recorded as painter, printmaker, art educator and writer. Recognition and collections.