Mylius Prize

Premio Mylius
Heinrich (Enrico) Mylius, founder of the prize
Awarded for	art prize; awards for painting in oils and for fresco painting
Date	1841–1939
Location	Milan, Lombardy
Country	Italy
Presented by	Accademia di Brera, Milan

The Premio Mylius was an Italian prize for painting. It was established by the Austrian industrialist Heinrich Mylius [it] in 1841 and awarded by the Accademia di Brera in Milan,[1]: 17  which at that time was under Habsburg rule. In 1856 there were two types of award, an annual prize of 700 Austrian lire for a painting in oils, and a biennial award of 1000 lire for fresco work.[2]: 155 [3] It was awarded until the outbreak of the Second World War.[1]: 29 

Among the recipients of the award were Salvatore Mazza (1856), Pietro Michis (1868), Vespasiano Bignami (1869), Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1870), Filippo Carcano (1878), Giovanni Beltrami [it], (1884) Amerino Cagnoni (1886), Francesco Filippini (1890), Egidio Riva (1902), Donato Frisia (1920) and Trento Longaretti (1939).[1]: 29 [4][5][6]

References

1. Giacomo Agosti, Matteo Ceriana (1997). Le raccolte storiche dell'Accademia di Brera (in Italian). Florence: Centro Di della Edifimi. ISBN 978-88-7038-299-0.
2. [s.n.] (1856). Guida di Milano per l'anno 1856, volume XXXIII (in Italian). Milan: Giuseppe Bernardoni di Gio.
3. Gazzetta ufficiale del regno d'Italia, Volume 6, 1887, page 6387.
4. Elda Fezzi (1966). Beltrami, Giovanni (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 8. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2018.
5. Roberto Ferrari (1996). Ferrari, Giovanni Battista (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 46. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2018.
6. Ilaria Sgarbozza (2008). Mazza, Salvatore (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 72. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2018.