Rubens Santoro
Rubens Santoro (October 26, 1859 in Mongrassano, Province of Cosenza, Calabria[1] – December 30, 1941 in Naples) was an Italian painter.
Biography
He moved to Naples at 10 years of age, to study literature, but his inclination was painting. He only briefly enrolled at the
He began painting landscapes at Granatello, near Naples, where the painter Marià Fortuny was visiting. Fortuny commented to his fellow painter that:
Many end up where you started .... (you) continue to study more from life; of the ancient painters only two or three will learn from nature to add to their art. I had to work twelve years, and God knows what and how much effort, to break the gates of the Academy within which I had imprisoned myself, while you breathe the open and have attained it already.
Santoro continually changed his vistas, painting in
He then moved to Paris, and after an excursion in England, returned to Naples even more prolific. Colnaghi, the art merchant of London, commissioned paintings for Stewart Gardner from the artist.[2][3] His painting Verona exhibited at 1911 exhibition of Barcelona was awarded a Silver medal.
The painter Francesco Raffaello Santoro was his cousin.[4]
Selected paintings
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Capri -
The Zattera and church of the Gesuati -
The Grand Canal -
A Siesta in Sunshine
References
- ^ [1] page 427-428
- ^ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti., by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 451.
- ^ History of Modern Italian Art, 2nd Edition, by Ashton Rollins Willard. Longmans, Green, and Company, 39 Paternoster Row, London, New York, Bombay, 1902. page 390-391.
- ^ Santoro family tree.
Other sources
- Rubens Santoro e i pittori della provincia di Cosenza fra Otto e Novecento, by Tonino Sicoli, Isabella Valente, Maria A. Picone Tetrusa. Edizioni AR & S, 2003.
External links
Media related to Rubens Santoro at Wikimedia Commons
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