Bartolomeo Giuliano

Bartolomeo Giuliano (15 August 1825, Susa — 12 April 1909, Milan) was an Italian painter; primarily of portraits and genre scenes.

Biography

His father was a wealthy doctor and he had a comfortable childhood. In 1832, when he was seven, his family moved to Turin. After completing his basic education, he attended the Accademia Albertina, where he studied drawing with Giovanni Battista Biscarra and painting with Carlo Arienti.^[1] Upon graduating, in 1845, he worked in the studios of his friend and colleague, Giovanni Battista Arnaud. The following year, he began presenting his works at the "Society for Promotion of the Fine Arts".

In 1857, after several years of traveling between

He took part in the Esposizione Nazionale Italiana [it] in Florence (1861), and was a regular participant at exhibitions in Turin and Milan, with works on religious subjects, landscapes and genre scenes. He was heavily influenced by the Scapigliatura movement and the works of the French artist, Jules Breton. In 1866, he created allegorical frescoes in the lunettes of the dome at the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. These were later replaced with mosaics.^[3]

After he gave up teaching, he lived in the

He died in Milan, aged eighty-three. Bronze sculptures of him, by Giulio Branca, may be seen at the Accademia Brera and in the Cimitero Monumentale.^[4]

Selected paintings

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  Man with a Guitar and a Dog
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  Fisherwoman at the River
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  The Return Home
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  The Mignon
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  Temptation

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bartolomeo Giuliano.

• Biography of Giuliano by Francesca Paola Rusconi, from the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani @ Treccani
• Brief biography @ Arte Piemonte
• More works by Giuliano @ ArtNet