L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e ~ D o s t o ï e v s k i

L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e  ~  D o s t o ï e v s k i



Sunday, November 12, 2023

Odd meetings and ordinary objects - selected paintings by Gregorio Sciltian

 
Bacco all'Osteria, 1935-1936.
Ritratto del duca di Grazzano Visconti, 1941. Guido Visconti di Madrone, second duca di Grazzano Visconti; the eldest brother of director Luchino Visconti.
 I Vagabondi, 1943.
La Scuola dei Ladri, 1954-1955.

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Gregorio Sciltian (né Grigor Shildian, 20 August 1900 - 1 April 1985), Italian-Armenian painter, designer, and medallist, best known for his portraiture and trompe-l'œil compositions. Born into an Armenian family in Nakhichevan-on-Don - now part of Rostov-on-Don, Russia - after finishing the gymnasium in Moscow, he studied art at the Saint-Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. Following the October Revolution, he temporarily settled in Tiflis, before moving to Vienna to attend the Academy and the Museum of Fine Arts. He visited Rome in 1923 and remained there for the next four years, participating in the Biennale of Rome in 1925 and the Biennale of Venice in 1926. Afterward, he lived in Paris and Milan. He died in Rome at the age of eighty-four.



2 comments:

  1. + Modernismo fuso on lo stile rinascimentale.
    Sciltian influenzato dai maestri che ammirava, che bello.

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  2. The title of the family is Visconti di Modrone, old Milanese nobility. Luchino Visconti, conte di Lonate Pozzolo, was a very peculiar mixture of aristocratic character and politically leftist views. Very interesting paintings of an almost forgotten artist!

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