Giulio Aristide Sartorio
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Born | Rome, Papal States (now Italy) | February 11, 1860
Died | October 3, 1932 | (aged 72)
Nationality | Italian |
Alma mater | Rome Institute of Fine Arts |
Occupation(s) | Painter, film director |
Giulio Aristide Sartorio (11 February 1860 – 3 October 1932) was an Italian painter and film director from Rome.
Biography
Having attended the Rome Institute of Fine Arts, Sartorio presented a
His period of greatest renown came at the beginning of the century, when he produced decorative friezes for the 5th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte of Venice (1903), the Mostra Nazionale of Fine Arts (Milan, Parco Sempione, 1906) and Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome (1908–12). Wounded during World War I, he travelled extensively in the Middle East, Japan and Latin America during the 1920s and became a member of the Italian Royal Academy.
Works
His most famous works are: Diana of Ephes and the slaves, Gorgon and the Heroes (1895–99) and a frieze in the Palazzo Montecitorio. He also collaborated with Gabriele D'Annunzio in a magazine entitled The Banquet (1895–98).
He directed the motion picture Il mistero di Galatea (1919), starring Marga Sevilla, his wife, who studied acting with Eleonora Duse.
Selected filmography
- The Sack of Rome (1920)
Gallery
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Malaria (1883). National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires
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Siren or Green Abyss (1893). Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Turin
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Study of the Head of theGorgonfor The Gorgon and the Heroes (c. 1895). National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome
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Diana of Ephesus and the slaves (c. 1895-1899). National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome
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TheGorgonand the Heroes (c. 1897-1899). National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome
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Sagra, Example of the Art Nouveau style by Giulio Aristide Sartorio. Gallerie di Piazza Scala, Milan
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November plowing or Oxen at the plow (1914) (Views of the Roman countryside).Art collections of Fondazione Cariplo
References
- Antonella Crippa, Giulio Aristide Sartorio, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).
External links
Media related to Giulio Aristide Sartorio at Wikimedia Commons
- Works by or about Giulio Aristide Sartorio at the Internet Archive