Rocco Lentini (1858-1943)

The bell tower of Pieve di Cadore

Code :  ARTOTT0000289

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Rocco Lentini (1858-1943)

The bell tower of Pieve di Cadore

Code :  ARTOTT0000289

not available

Rocco Lentini (1858-1943) - The bell tower of Pieve di Cadore

Features

The bell tower of Pieve di Cadore

Artist:  Rocco Lentini (1858-1943)

Artwork title:  Campanile di Pieve di Cadore

Age:  20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Description : Campanile di Pieve di Cadore

Oil on linen cardboard. Signed and dated lower left. To Verso paper label with title, date and signature. In coeval frame.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 54
Width: 45

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 44
Width: 35

Additional Information

Artist: Rocco Lentini (1858-1943)

Son of an artist, born in Palermo in 1858 to the painter and decorator Giovanni, already during a youthful trial, he illustrated with Enrico Cavallaro the manuscript Il testamento del Nanno by Antonio Palomes, a pro-clerical and anti-unitary text, using the watercolor technique . The following year he entered the studio of the landscape architect Francesco Lojacono. In 1877 he was awarded a scholarship from the municipality of Palermo, which allowed him to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. He then settled in Naples, in a limited period of time, but followed the work of Filippo Palizzi and other Neapolitan realists with interest. Just two years later he was represented with his paintings at the Paris Salon. After his presence at the Promotrice delle belle arti in Turin in 1879, he continued his training. Returning after a trip abroad, he obtained the chair of painting at the Brera Academy, staying in Milan for a few years. From 1888 to 1924 he taught drawing at the royal "Maria Adelaide" boarding school in Palermo. In the last decade of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a season of great urban and building development for Palermo, Lentini devoted himself intensely to decoration, coordinating the work of a large team. In that period he actively participated in the cultural life of Sicily and carried out the most important enterprises in his native city, including the decorations and frescoes for the Massimo, Politeama, Bellini theatres, for the central station, and for the interiors of Palazzo delle Aquile with Giuseppe Damiani Almeyda and others. He organized the "1st Sicilian exhibition of black and white painting, sculpture", held at Villa Gallidoro. He founded and directed the monthly La Sicilia artistic and archaeological, together with the Basiles (father and son) and Francesco Saverio Cavallari. He was a frequent visitor to European artistic circles, especially German and northern ones. In addition to numerous national and international exhibitions, he took part in the Venice Biennials of 1905 and 1922. Particularly in the 1920s, while large public and private commissions decreased in Palermo, painting became his main activity. Trips to Europe and numerous stays in the Alps ignited and made his palette richer and more material, now open to expressionist experiences and the structured volumes of Plastic Values. Moving following his marriage to a Venetian noblewoman to the lagoon city, he will reside there until his death in 1943.

Age: 20th Century / 1901 - 2000

20th Century / 1901 - 2000