Italian painter
Demetrio Cosola (9 September 1851 – 27 February 1895) was an Italian painter of Piedmontese verismo painting .
Biography
La vaccinazione nelle campagne (The vaccination in the Rural Areas , 1894)
Il dettato (The Dictation Lesson , 1891)
Born in San Sebastiano da Po , he lived his entire life between Chivasso , where he moved with his family at the age of seven, and Turin.[ 1] [ 2]
At the age of 18 he began attending the Accademia Albertina .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] He studied under Enrico Gamba , Andrea Gastaldi , Giovanni Tamone , and became friends with another teacher, Antonio Fontanesi .[ 1]
In 1873, he began to exhibit, but initially without great success.[ 3]
In 1884, he returned to the Academy, as assistant teacher first to Gastaldi, then (after the latter's death in 1889) to Pier Celestino Gilardi .[ 1] [ 3]
He died in February 1895 of pneumonia.[ 1]
Cosola was quite a prolific painter: despite his short life, there are about 200 landscapes, about 200 portraits and about a hundred paintings of other genres.[ 2] His favorite subjects were nature and the everyday life of ordinary people,[ 2] [ 4] frequently including children.[ 5]
Among his major works, Al sole (In the Sun , 1884) was housed in the Royal Palace of Turin , but was destroyed by a fire in 1997; Il dettato (The Dictation Lesson , 1891) is housed in the Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art ;[ 1] [ 5] Dolori inattesi (Unexpected Sorrows , 1895) is in Chivasso , in a private collection;[ 1] La vaccinazione nelle campagne (The Vaccination in the Countryside , 1894) is also housed in Chivasso, in the Town Hall.[ 1] [ 3] [ 4]
References
External links
Media related to Demetrio Cosola at Wikimedia Commons
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