Gustavo Simoni
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Gustavo Simoni (5 November 1845, in
Biography
His father, Antonio, was a barber who originally came from Pratica di mare. He had a younger brother, Scipione who, with his encouragement, also became a painter.
beginning in 1877, he travelled extensively, visiting France, Spain and, especially, North Africa, where he made several lengthy stays in
In the 1890s, he opened a studio in Paris and started a school for Orientalist painting in Rome. When he returned there, he lived in farmhouse that had been renovated by his son-in-law, the architect
In addition to his Orientalist scenes, he created genre scenes, plus highly imaginative historical scenes from ancient Rome and the 17th century. the 18th century. He was one of the original members of the Associazione degli Acquarellisti romani. His works, however, are generally more familiar among watercolorists in England than in Italy.
Outside of Italy, his works may be seen in Glasgow, Leipzig, Melbourne and New York. Maria Martinetti and Filiberto Sbardella were, perhaps, his best known students.
Sources
- Gian Francesco Lomonaco. Acquerelli dell'Ottocento, La Società degli Acquarellisti a Roma, 1987
- Renato Mammucari, Acquerellisti romani: suggestioni neoclassiche, esotismo orientale, decadentismo bizantino, realismo borghese, Edimond, 2001 ISBN 978-88-500-0142-2
External links
Media related to Gustavo Simoni at Wikimedia Commons
- More works by Simoni @ ArtNet
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