Alessandro Zezzos
Alessandro Zezzos (1848, in Venice, Austrian Empire – 1914, in Vittorio Veneto)[1][2] was an Italian painter of genre scenes, costume scenes, portraits, and vedute, in watercolors and oils.
He studied under
Academy of Fine Arts in his native Venice.[3] In 1873, he exhibited in Venice: Né sposo né figlio and Scena famigliare. In 1877 at Paris, Les saltimbanques and Les pigeons de Saint Marc.[4] He was active as a painter in Venice. Among his watercolors are Le rondini, exhibited at Turin in 1880; Una calle, exhibited at the 1891 Mostra Triennale of the Brera Academy. In 1881 at Milan, displayed the paintings: Mercante di ventagli; At the Predica, Half-figure of a Girl; and Popolana. In 1883 in Rome, exhibited: The Lovers. He painted Love Letter, Una fuga nel 1700; and The Dockside of San Marco.[5] From 1877 to 1878 he sent the following paintings to Paris: Pigeons of St Mark, El-Mazrama (Mouchoir of the Sultan), Los Saltimbanques, and A venetian - A Daughter of the People.[6]
He had a retrospective exhibit at the Castello Sforzesco of Milan in 1937.
.Notes
- 1 artwork by or after Alessandro Zezzos at the Art UK site: Outside St Mark's.
References
- ^ Dates, A Checklist of Painters, C1200-1994.
- ^ Enciclopedia Treccani Short biography.
- ^ Modern Italy 1738-1898. 2nd edition, Count Pietro Orsi; Publisher T Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square, E.C. London.1899 page 378.
- ^ Istituto Matteucci short biography.
- ^ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti., by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 560.
- ^ Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works: A Handbook Containing Two thousand and fifty biographical sketches. Fifth edition, By Clara Erskine Clement Waters, Laurence Hutton, Houghton and Mifflin,Bostonand New York, 1889, page 370.