Giuseppe Palanti
Giuseppe Palanti | |
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Born | Giuseppe Palanti 30 July 1881 Milan, Italy |
Died | 23 April 1946 Milan, Italy | (aged 64)
Known for | Painter, illustrator, costume and advertising design |
Movement | Impresionism, Modernism |
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Giuseppe Palanti (30 July 1881 – 23 April 1946) was an Italian painter, illustrator, and urban planner, best known for his portraits, notably of Mussolini and Pius XI. He had a long collaboration with Teatro alla Scala in Milan, creating costume, set design and advertising material for multiple opera productions. He was also a major contributor towards the development of the seaside resort Milano Marittima.
Biography
Early life
Born in Milan to Giovanni Palanti, a carpenter and furniture maker and Virginia De Gaspari, a seamstress,
Early career
Palanti continued to design and illustrate the covers of sales catalogues for Milanese department stores from 1901 to 1912, working for the Italian Cooperative Union. From 1902, he began working with the
Milano Marittima
Palanti was heavily involved in the development of the seaside resort Milano Marittima, north of Cervia. Originally an area of uncultivated coastal pine forests, in 1907 the Municipal Administration of Cervia ceded a vast area along the coast to the Maffei company, allowing them to build villas, parks and gardens in order to create a resort town. The Società Milano Marittima per lo sviluppo della spiaggia di Cervia (Milano Marittima Society for the development of the beach of Cervia) was created in 1911 to progress development, which Palanti quickly joined.[8] He was an advocate of the garden city model, influenced by British urban planner Ebenezer Howard.[9] His vision was of an urban project which would create a new city in which tourist accommodation blended with the surrounding nature. Designed to appeal to the middle class, it consisted of a series of decadent art nouveau villas set within the pine forest. In 1912 he drew up the master plan for the new municipality of Cervia[10] and the plans for the first villas on the coast.
WW1
In 1915 Palanti attempted to enlist in the
Later life and death
In 1921 Palanti joined the Chiaro di Luna artistic and literary movement, working against the 'antics' of the avant-gardes.
Work and themes
Palanti was an eclectic artist, notably producing oil paintings, preferring portraits and nudes,[13] as well as landscapes and waterscapes. He also worked with decorative arts, including fabric design, ceramics, stained glass, wrought iron, metal objects and furniture.[14] He was an illustrator who produced graphics for posters and book covers, in addition to creating sketches for costume and set design for the Teatro alla Scala. In later life, he worked as an architect and urban planner, integral to the design of the seaside town Milano Marittima.[14] His modernity looked to the strength, safety and joy of a middle and upper bourgeois class at the beginning of the twentieth century: industrialists, professionals, ladies of high society, who enjoyed a confident pre-war Italy in economic growth.[3] Almost all of his activity, over the years, was oriented towards applied art, without however encroaching on a purely technical style, as in the case of graphics, inclined as he was instead to decorative solutions expressed in pictorial terms. Rich and multifaceted interventions in the so-called minor arts, from designs for fabrics to ceramics from Faenza, to stained glass windows, to wrought iron, to the applications of leather and metals for Ceruti furniture, to collaborations with the architect Gaetano Moretti. The creation of decorative paintings on bookshelves or furniture doors.
Personal life
Palanti was the older brother of architect Mario Palanti. He married Ada Romussi, daughter of politician and journalist Carlo Romussi,[15] and was father to the architect Giancarlo Palanti and Maria Virginia.[16]
Legacy
His pupils included Pina Sacconaghi, Francesco Carini,[17] Carlo Ceci,[18] Augusto Colombo,[19] Goliardo Padova[20] and Sigismondo Martini.[21] Exhibitions recently dedicated to Palanti include the Spoleto Festival in 2001[22] the Civic Gallery Torre Avogadro in Lumezzane in 2003,[23] and Giuseppe Palanti. Pittore, urbanista, illustratore in Cervia in 2012.[3] The street Via Giuseppe Palanti in southern Milan is named after him, as is Viale Giuseppe Palanti in Cervia.
Notable works
- Ritratto di Dante Tomasini, 1942, oil on canvas[14]
- Ritratto di Graziosa Torriani Tomasini, 1942, oil on canvas[14]
- Ritratto di Amilcare Beretta, 1943, oil on canvas[14]
- Ritratto di Pio XI, 1924, oil on canvas[6]
- Ritratto di Alessandro Volta, oil on canvas[6]
- Ritratto di Mussolini (Il Macigno), 1928, oil on canvas[6]
- Ritratto di Queen Elena, 1925, oil on canvas[1]
- Ritratto di Vittorio Emanuele III, 1925, oil on canvas[1]
Honours and awards
- 1927 – Order of St. Sylvester, Commander[1]
- 1905 Medaglia d'Oro, Augusto Baelz, Mostra d'Arte Applicata alla Pubblicità[1]
See also
- Palanti
- Mario Palanti
- Teatro alla Scala
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l PALANTI, Giuseppe: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 80 (2014) www.treccani.it, accessed 21 Feb 2021
- ^ [1] Guida turistica di Casalbuttano ed Uniti
- ^ a b c d GIUSEPPE PALANTI. Pittore, urbanista, illustratore Italia Liberty, accessed 20 Feb 2021
- ^ a b c Biographical information: Giuseppe Palanti RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, accessed 20 Feb 2021
- ^ [2] IlSole24ORE
- ^ a b c d e Eroi dimenticati: Giuseppe Palanti: Biography article, www.galleriarecta.it, accessed 21 February 2021
- ^ GIUSEPPE PALANTI AND MILAN’S EXPO 1906 www.italianways.com, accessed 22 Feb 2021
- ^ "IL SOGNO DELLA CITTA' GIARDINO – LE ORIGINI DI MILANO MARITTIMA DISEGNATA DA GIUSEPPE PALANTI E VOLUTA DAI PIONIERI MILANESI CHE LA FONDARONO IL 14 AGOSTO 1912". www.milanomarittimalife.it. Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 20 Feb 2021.
- ^ E MILANO MARITTIMA COMPIE CENT'ANNI www.famigliacristiana.it, accessed 22 Feb 2021
- ^ [3] Viale Giuseppe Palanti a Cervia-Milano Marittima
- ^ a b c d Eroi dimenticati: Giuseppe Palanti, arte e propaganda article, Il Primato Nazionale, 28 July 2019
- ^ "VILLA NECCHI ALLA PORTALUPA: MOLINO D'ISELLA DI GAMBOLO". www.paviaedintorni.it/. 2 April 2014. Retrieved 20 Feb 2021.
- ^ Giuseppe Palanti (1881 – 1946, Italian) LA CONCHIGLIA DI VENERE: The Nude in Art History, accessed 23 Feb 2021
- ^ a b c d e Le Raccolte d’Arte dell’Ospedale Maggiore di Milano Lombardia Beni Culturali, accessed 21 Feb 2021
- ^ [4] Carlo Romussi
- ^ Giancarlo Palanti, Arquivo Arq: profissionais, www.arquivo.arq.br/
- ^ Fondazione Cariplo
- ^ Comune di Urbania Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Fondazione Cariplo
- ^ Goliardo Padova
- ^ Andrea Bombelli (1957). I pittori cremaschi. p. 249.
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- ^ [6] Corriere della Sera, 29 marzo 2003
Bibliography
- Rossana Bossaglia (1972). Giuseppe Palanti. Un pittore a Milano fra scapigliatura e novecento. Milano.
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