Francesco Didioni
Illustration — Portrait of a Young Blonde Woman • Illustration — A Courtyard with Children Francesco Didioni (1839, Milan –27 July 1895, Stresa) was an Italian painter of portraits and genre scenes.
Francesco Didioni
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- 1839 · Milan.
- Died
- 1895 · Stresa.
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- Kingdom of Italy
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- Brera Academy
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He studied at the Accademia di Brera, with Raffaele Casnedi and Francesco Hayez. In 1861, while still a student, he won his first competition with a drawing of a military ambulance. At first, he devoted himself almost entirely to portraiture, with a style influenced by Tranquillo Cremona. His best-known is, however, a later work: Portrait of a Young Blonde Woman (1888), preserved at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan. His first historical paintings were The Death of Gian Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (1862) and The Funeral of Judas Maccabeus (1864). The most familiar is Reasons of State (1881), depicting Napoleon's divorce from Josephine de Beauharnais. It became very popular and several etchings of it were made. He is interred at the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano.
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- 1.Didioni Francesco. istitutomatteucci.it.
- 2.Stefano Busonero. Raffaele Casnedi. frammentiarte.it.
- 3.Alessia Alberti. Ragione di stato. lombardiabeniculturali.it. 2011.
- 4.Municipalité de Milan, App di ricerca defunti Not 2 4get
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- De Gubernatis. Angelo. Angelo De Gubernatis. Didioni (Francesco). Dizionario degli artisti italiani viventi, pittori, scultori e architetti. Tipi dei successori Le Monnier. Florence. 1889. 181.
- AA. VV. La pittura Lombarda nel secolo XIX. tipografia Capriolo e Massimino. 74-75. 1900.
- Gottardo Garollo. Didioni Francesco. Dizionario Biografico Universale. Ulrico Hoepli. 1907. 682.
- Ulrich Thieme. Felix Becker. Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Didioni, Francesco. E. A. Seemann. 1913. 618. 224.
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