Napoleone Nani
Napoleone Nani (1841–1899) was an Italian painter, active in Venice, where he became professor of the Accademia di Belle Arti.
Biography
[edit]He was born in Venice. In 1877 at Naples, he displayed his self-portrait and a canvas titled La posa. In 1881 in Venice, he displayed La macchina riposa and il cuore lavora. At the 1883 Promotrice of Florence: Lo studio dal vero; at Rome the same year: Lo studio del nudo and Il primo pensiero ai miei fiori. Successively in Turin, Milan, and Rome, he exhibited: Vizio, Trattative di conciliazione, Giudizio di un intelligente, and Studio. To Venice, in 1887, Studio dal vero and La modella; at the 1889 Florentine Promotrice: In assenza della Maestri.[1] Among his pupils were Giacomo Favretto, Luigi Nono, Alessandro Milesi, and Luigi Pastega. He painted mainly genre works.[2] In 1874, he moved to Verona to direct the local Academy of Fine Arts, the Accademia Cignaroli.[3][4] He died in Verona in 1899.
References
[edit]- ^ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti., by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, Page 320.
- ^ Genre painting of La Sorpressa. (1891).
- ^ Enciclopedia Treccani entry.
- ^ Short biography
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