Giulio Aristide Sartorio

Giulio Aristide Sartorio studied at Accademia di San Luca. Training under Francesco Podesti, Domenico Morelli and Girolamo Sartorio is recorded. Virgilio Guidi and Emilio Notte are recorded as having studied under Giulio Aristide Sartorio. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is painting. Francesco Paolo Michetti and Luis Álvarez Catalá are recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome, Naples and Paris. Residence is recorded at via Borgognona and Horti Galateae. Employment is recorded with Luis Álvarez Catalá, Angelo Sommaruga and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Works named in the authority record are Gorgon and Heroes and Diana of Ephesus and the slaves. Work by Giulio Aristide Sartorio is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma, Galleria d'arte moderna Ricci Oddi and Kunstmuseum Den Haag. Distinctions recorded are gold medal.

• Born — 11 February 1860 • Birthplace — Rome, Papal States (now Italy) • Died — 3 October 1932 • Place of death — Rome • Occupation — Painter, film director • Education — Rome Institute of Fine Arts

Having attended the Rome Institute of Fine Arts, Sartorio presented a Symbolist work at the 1883 International Exposition of Rome. He formed friendships with Nino Costa and Gabriele D’Annunzio, and associated with the painters and photographers of the Roman countryside. He won a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 and met the Pre-Raphaelites in England in 1893. His participation in the Venice Biennale began in 1895 with the 1st International Exposition of Art of Venice, after which he taught at the Weimar Academy of Fine Arts from 1896 to 1898. His period of greatest renown came at the beginning of the century, when he produced decorative friezes for the 5th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte of Venice (1903), the Mostra Nazionale of Fine Arts (Milan, Parco Sempione, 1906) and Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome (1908–12). Wounded during World War I, he travelled extensively in the Middle East, Japan and Latin America during the 1920s and became a member of the Italian Royal Academy.

His most famous works are: Diana of Ephes and the slaves, Gorgon and the Heroes (1895–99) and a frieze in the Palazzo Montecitorio. He also collaborated with Gabriele D'Annunzio in a magazine entitled The Banquet (1895–98). He directed the motion picture Il mistero di Galatea (1919), starring Marga Sevilla, his wife, who studied acting with Eleonora Duse.

• The Sack of Rome (1920)

• Illustration — Malaria (1883). National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires • Illustration — The Reading (Catullus and Clodia) • Illustration — Siren or Green Abyss (1893). Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Turin • Illustration — Study of the Head of the Gorgon for The Gorgon and the Heroes (c. 1895). National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome • Illustration — Diana of Ephesus and the slaves (c. 1895-1899). National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome • Illustration — The Gorgon and the Heroes (c. 1897-1899). National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome • Illustration — Sagra, Example of the Art Nouveau style by Giulio Aristide Sartorio. Gallerie di Piazza Scala, Milan • Illustration — November plowing or Oxen at the plow (1914) (Views of the Roman countryside). Art collections of Fondazione Cariplo

The authorities additionally record the headings G. Sartorio, Aristide Sartorio, giulio aristide sartorio, A. Sartorio and Sartorio G. His recorded language was Italian. His recorded confession was Catholicism. He was the child of Raffaele Sartorio and Angiola Poletti. He married Julie Regine Betty Bonn and Marga Sevilla Sartorio. 3 children are recorded: Angiola Elise Sartorio, Lidia Sartorio and Lucio Aristide Sartorio. Other recorded relations include Girolamo Sartorio.

Giulio Aristide Sartorio worked in painting. His work is associated with Romanticism, Byzantine Revival and Symbolism. He was employed by Luis Álvarez Catalá, Angelo Sommaruga, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Academy of Fine Arts of Rome. He belonged to Cenacolo Michettiano, In arte libertas, Accademia di San Luca, XXV della campagna romana and Accademia delle Arti del Disegno. He worked at Rome, Naples, Paris, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, via Borgognona and Horti Galateae.