Giuseppe Amisani

Giuseppe Amisani studied at Brera Academy. Training under Cesare Tallone, Vespasiano Bignami and Emilio Gola is recorded. The recorded working language is French and Italian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are London, Milan and Portofino. Residence is recorded at Portofino. Work by Giuseppe Amisani is recorded in the collections of Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo Museum of Art, Uffizi Gallery, Palazzo Pitti and Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci". Distinctions recorded are Premio Mylius.

• Name — Giuseppe Amisani • Birth Name — Giuseppe Amisani • Born — 7 December 1881 • Birthplace — Mede Lomellina, Lombardy, Italy • Awards — * Mylius Prize, 1908 • Fumagalli Award, 1912 • Training — Accademia di Brera, Milan • Died — 8 September 1941 • Place of death — Portofino, Liguria, Italy

Amisani was born on 7 December 1881 in Piazza Mercato (now Piazza Giuseppe Amisani) in the comune of Mede di Lomellina, near Pavia in Lombardy, northern Italy. He studied at the technical institute of Pavia, where he failed the technical drawing course; he then studied at the Accademia di Brera in Milan under Cesare Tallone and Vespasiano Bignami. He won the Mylius prize of the Academy for his painting l'Eroe ("the hero") in 1908, and in 1911 or 1912 won the Fumagalli prize for figure-painting with his portrait of Lyda Borelli. From then on he concentrated almost exclusively on portrait-painting; his landscapes of the Italian Alps, of Rhodes and of Tunisia also attracted interest. Amisani was internationally famous in his time. He spent several years in Argentina and Brazil, and travelled also to England, France, North Africa and to the United States. He died in Portofino on 8 September 1941.

• Illustration — Giuseppe Amisani, Portrait of Lyda Borelli, c. 1910 Many of Amisani's portraits are of women. Among them are La Teletta, in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Milan; his Ritratto di Lyda Borelli, in the São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil; and Signora in grigio, his portrait of the actress Maria Melato, now in the Musei Civici di Monza. Amisani exhibited at the twelfth Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia (later known as the Biennale di Venezia) in 1920. In 1924, at the peak of his career, he was invited to Egypt to execute decorations at Ras al-Tin, the royal palace of Fuad I of Egypt. While there he painted a portrait of Farouk, then a small child. In 1926 Amisani was commissioned by the publishers of L'Illustrazione Italiana to paint landscapes in Rhodes. In the following year he exhibited North African landscapes in London. A self-portrait was shown at the seventeenth Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte in Venice in 1930, and later bought by the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Other works are in museums in Bari, Piacenza, and Lima, Peru.

Exhibitions of Amisani's work have included: • Galleria Pesaro, Milan, 1923. • Egypt, Algiers and portraiture by Giuseppe Amisani, Arlington Gallery, Bond Street, London, 1927. • XVII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice, 1930. • Giuseppe Amisani, Il pittore dei Re, Castello Sforzesco, Vigevano, Pavia, Italy, 2008. • Rirì la sciantosa e le altre. Ritratti di donne nella pittura di Giuseppe Amisani (1879–1941), Galleria Civica di Bari, 2012. • Illustration — La Modella, circa. 1910 • Illustration — Ritratto di donna • Illustration — Vera Vergani • Illustration — Riri in rosa